以赛亚书 42
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
主的仆人
42 “看啊，我所扶持、所拣选、所喜悦的仆人，
我已将我的灵赐给祂，
祂必将正义带给万邦。
2 祂不喧嚷，不呼喊，
不在街上高声说话。
3 压伤的芦苇，祂不折断；
将残的灯火，祂不吹灭。
祂必信实地带来正义。
4 祂不灰心也不沮丧，
直到祂在地上设立正义。
四海都渴望祂的训诲。”
5 创造诸天、铺展穹苍、
设立大地和地上的一切、
赐给世人生命气息和灵性的耶和华上帝说：
6 “我耶和华凭公义呼召你，
我必扶持你，保护你，
使你做我与众民立约的中保、
成为列国的光，
7 使你开瞎子的眼睛、
从监牢中释放囚犯、
领出陷在黑暗中的人。
8 我是耶和华，这就是我的名字。
我不会把我的荣耀给假神，
也不会把我当受的赞美给雕刻的偶像。
9 看啊，以前的预言都已应验，
我现在要宣告新的预言，
把还未发生的事告诉你们。”
赞美主的歌
10 航海的和海中的一切、
众海岛和岛上的居民啊，
你们要向耶和华高唱新歌，
从地极赞美祂。
11 旷野和其中的城邑以及基达人居住的村庄，
要一同扬声颂赞。
西拉的居民要歌唱，
在山顶欢呼。
12 愿他们把荣耀归给耶和华，
在众海岛上颂赞祂。
13 耶和华像出征的勇士，
像斗志激昂的战士。
祂必高呼吶喊，战胜仇敌。
上帝应许帮助以色列人
14 “我已沉默多时，我克制不语，
现在我要发出急促的呐喊，
像分娩的妇人。
15 我要使大山小丘一片荒凉，
上面的草木都枯萎。
我要使河川变成岛屿，
池塘干涸。
16 我要带领瞎子走他们不认识的路，
引导他们走陌生的道。
我要把他们面前的黑暗变为光明，
坎坷之地变得平坦。
我必行这些事，我必不离弃他们。
17 但那些信靠雕刻的偶像、
供奉金属铸像的必遭唾弃，
羞愧难当。
以色列眼瞎耳聋
18 “耳聋的人啊，听吧！
眼瞎的人啊，看吧！
19 有谁比我的仆人更瞎，
比我差遣的使者更聋呢？
有谁像那些与我立约的人那样瞎呢？
有谁像耶和华的仆人那样瞎呢？
20 你们看见许多事却不领会，
耳朵开着却听不见。”
21 耶和华乐意使祂的律法尊大而荣耀，
因为祂行事公义。
22 但这些百姓饱受劫掠，
都被困在坑中，囚在监内。
他们沦为俘虏，无人搭救；
被当作战利品掳走，无人追回。
23 你们当中谁肯专心听呢？
以后谁肯留心倾听呢？
24 谁把雅各交给了掳掠者，
使以色列任人劫掠？
难道不是被我们得罪的耶和华吗？
他们不肯遵行祂的道，
也不听从祂的训诲。
25 所以，祂把烈怒和战火倾倒在他们身上。
他们被火包围，却不明白；
被烈火焚身，却不在乎。
以賽亞書 42
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
主的僕人
42 「看啊，我所扶持、所揀選、所喜悅的僕人，
我已將我的靈賜給祂，
祂必將正義帶給萬邦。
2 祂不喧嚷，不呼喊，
不在街上高聲說話。
3 壓傷的蘆葦，祂不折斷；
將殘的燈火，祂不吹滅。
祂必信實地帶來正義。
4 祂不灰心也不沮喪，
直到祂在地上設立正義。
四海都渴望祂的訓誨。」
5 創造諸天、鋪展穹蒼、
設立大地和地上的一切、
賜給世人生命氣息和靈性的耶和華上帝說：
6 「我耶和華憑公義呼召你，
我必扶持你，保護你，
使你做我與眾民立約的中保、
成為列國的光，
7 使你開瞎子的眼睛、
從監牢中釋放囚犯、
領出陷在黑暗中的人。
8 我是耶和華，這就是我的名字。
我不會把我的榮耀給假神，
也不會把我當受的讚美給雕刻的偶像。
9 看啊，以前的預言都已應驗，
我現在要宣告新的預言，
把還未發生的事告訴你們。」
讚美主的歌
10 航海的和海中的一切、
眾海島和島上的居民啊，
你們要向耶和華高唱新歌，
從地極讚美祂。
11 曠野和其中的城邑以及基達人居住的村莊，
要一同揚聲頌讚。
西拉的居民要歌唱，
在山頂歡呼。
12 願他們把榮耀歸給耶和華，
在眾海島上頌讚祂。
13 耶和華像出征的勇士，
像鬥志激昂的戰士。
祂必高呼吶喊，戰勝仇敵。
上帝應許幫助以色列人
14 「我已沉默多時，我克制不語，
現在我要發出急促的呐喊，
像分娩的婦人。
15 我要使大山小丘一片荒涼，
上面的草木都枯萎。
我要使河川變成島嶼，
池塘乾涸。
16 我要帶領瞎子走他們不認識的路，
引導他們走陌生的道。
我要把他們面前的黑暗變為光明，
坎坷之地變得平坦。
我必行這些事，我必不離棄他們。
17 但那些信靠雕刻的偶像、
供奉金屬鑄像的必遭唾棄，
羞愧難當。
以色列眼瞎耳聾
18 「耳聾的人啊，聽吧！
眼瞎的人啊，看吧！
19 有誰比我的僕人更瞎，
比我差遣的使者更聾呢？
有誰像那些與我立約的人那樣瞎呢？
有誰像耶和華的僕人那樣瞎呢？
20 你們看見許多事卻不領會，
耳朵開著卻聽不見。」
21 耶和華樂意使祂的律法尊大而榮耀，
因為祂行事公義。
22 但這些百姓飽受劫掠，
都被困在坑中，囚在監內。
他們淪為俘虜，無人搭救；
被當作戰利品擄走，無人追回。
23 你們當中誰肯專心聽呢？
以後誰肯留心傾聽呢？
24 誰把雅各交給了擄掠者，
使以色列任人劫掠？
難道不是被我們得罪的耶和華嗎？
他們不肯遵行祂的道，
也不聽從祂的訓誨。
25 所以，祂把烈怒和戰火傾倒在他們身上。
他們被火包圍，卻不明白；
被烈火焚身，卻不在乎。
Isaiah 42
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Servant’s Mission
42 “This(A) is My Servant;(B) I strengthen Him,
this is My Chosen One;(C) I delight in Him.(D)
I have put My Spirit on Him;(E)
He will bring justice[a] to the nations.(F)
2 He will not cry out or shout
or make His voice heard in the streets.
3 He will not break a bruised reed,
and He will not put out a smoldering wick;
He will faithfully bring justice.
4 He will not grow weak or be discouraged
until He has established justice on earth.
The islands will wait for His instruction.”(G)
5 This is what God, Yahweh, says—
who created the heavens and stretched them out,(H)
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,(I)
who gives breath to the people on it
and life[b] to those who walk on it(J)—
6 “I, Yahweh, have called You
for a righteous purpose,[c](K)
and I will hold You by Your hand.(L)
I will keep You and appoint You
to be a covenant for the people(M)
and a light to the nations,(N)
7 in order to open blind eyes,(O)
to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,(P)
and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.
8 I am Yahweh, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another(Q)
or My praise to idols.
9 The past events have indeed happened.
Now I declare new events;(R)
I announce them to you before they occur.”
A Song of Praise
10 Sing a new song to the Lord;(S)
sing His praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,(T)
you islands with your[d] inhabitants.
11 Let the desert and its cities shout,
the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.(U)
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;(V)
let them cry out from the mountaintops.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord
and declare His praise in the islands.
13 The Lord advances like a warrior;
He stirs up His zeal like a soldier.(W)
He shouts, He roars aloud,
He prevails over His enemies.
14 “I have kept silent from ages past;
I have been quiet and restrained Myself.(X)
But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,(Y)
gasping breathlessly.
15 I will lay waste mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.(Z)
16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;(AA)
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them(AB)
and rough places into level ground.(AC)
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not forsake them.(AD)
17 They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!(AE)
Israel’s Blindness and Deafness
18 “Listen, you deaf!
Look, you blind, so that you may see.(AF)
19 Who is blind but My servant,(AG)
or deaf like My messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like My dedicated one,[e]
or blind like the servant of the Lord?
20 Though seeing many things,[f] you do not obey.
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”(AH)
21 The Lord was pleased, because of His righteousness,
to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted,
all of them trapped in holes
or imprisoned in dungeons.
They have become plunder(AI)
with no one to rescue them
and loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!”
23 Who among you will pay attention to this?
Let him listen and obey in the future.
24 Who gave Jacob to the robber,[g]
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord?
Have we not sinned against Him?
They were not willing to walk in His ways,
and they would not listen to His instruction.
25 So He poured out on Jacob His furious anger
and the power of war.
It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;
it burned him, but he paid no attention.[h](AJ)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 42:1 DSS read His justice
- Isaiah 42:5 Lit spirit
- Isaiah 42:6 Or you by [My] righteousness; lit you in righteousness
- Isaiah 42:10 Lit their
- Isaiah 42:19 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 42:20 Alt Hb tradition reads You see many things;
- Isaiah 42:24 Lit to loot
- Isaiah 42:25 Lit he did not put on heart
Isaiah 42
King James Version
42 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8 I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.
13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?
20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
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