惩罚与拯救

65 耶和华说:“我向没有求问我的人显现,
让没有寻找我的人寻见,
对没有求告我的国家说,
‘我在这里,我在这里!’
我整天伸出双手招呼一群悖逆的百姓,
他们却任意妄为,
不走正路,
不断地当面惹我发怒。
他们在园中献祭,
在砖台上烧香,
坐在坟场里,
宿在隐秘处。
他们吃猪肉,
用不洁之物做汤,
还对人说,‘站远点,
别挨近我,因为我比你圣洁!’
我被这些人气得鼻孔冒烟,
整天怒火难息。
看啊,这些都记录在我面前,
我不会再保持缄默,
我要报应他们,
按他们和他们祖先的罪报应他们。
我必按他们的所作所为报应他们,
因为他们在山上烧香,
在丘陵上亵渎我。
这是耶和华说的。”

耶和华说:“人发现一串葡萄尚可酿造新酒时,
一定会说,‘不要毁坏它,
里面还有好葡萄。’
同样,因我仆人的缘故,
我也不会把他们全部毁灭。

“我必使雅各的后裔兴起,
使犹大人兴起,
继承我的群山。
我拣选的子民必拥有那片土地,
我的仆人必在那里安居。
10 沙仑必成为牧放羊群的草场,
亚割谷必成为牛群休憩的地方,
这些地方必属于寻求我的人。
11 但至于你们这些背弃我、
忘记我的圣山、
摆宴供奉幸运之神、
调酒祭奠命运之神的人,
12 我要使你们注定被杀,
丧身刀下。
因为我呼唤你们,你们不回应;
我讲话,你们不聆听。
你们做我视为恶的事,
专行令我不悦的事。”

13 所以主耶和华说:
“看啊,我的仆人必有吃有喝,
你们却要饥渴交加;
我的仆人必欢喜,
你们却要受羞辱;
14 我的仆人必欢喜快乐,
扬声歌唱,
你们却要伤心欲绝,
嚎啕大哭。
15 我的选民必用你们的名字作咒诅,
主耶和华必杀死你们,
给祂的仆人另起名字。
16 因此,在地上求福祉的人都必向信实的上帝祈求,
在地上起誓的人都必凭信实的上帝起誓。
因为过去的苦难已经被遗忘,
从我眼前消失了。

新天新地

17 “看啊,我要创造新天新地,
过去的一切都要被遗忘,
从记忆中消失。
18 你们要因我创造的一切而永远欢喜快乐。
看啊,我要创造一个充满喜乐的耶路撒冷,
其中的居民个个欢欣。
19 我必因耶路撒冷而欢喜,
因我的子民而快乐。
城里再听不见哭泣和哀号声。
20 再没有只活几天便夭折的婴儿,
也没有寿数未尽便死的老人,
因为满了百岁便死的人不过算是青年,
不足百岁便死的人被视为受了咒诅。
21 他们要建造房屋,安然居住,
栽种葡萄园,吃园中的果子。
22 他们建的房屋再不会被别人居住,
他们种的果实再不会被别人享用。
我的子民必像树木一样长寿,
我拣选的人必长享自己亲手劳碌的成果。
23 他们不会徒劳,
他们的孩子也不会遇到灾祸,
因为他们及其子孙是蒙上帝赐福的人。
24 他们还没有求告,
我就已经应允;
他们正要祷告,
我就已经垂听。
25 豺狼和绵羊必一起吃草,
狮子必像牛一样吃草,
蛇必以尘土为食。
在我的整个圣山上,
它们都不伤人,不害物。
这是耶和华说的。”

'以 賽 亞 書 65 ' not found for the version: Chinese New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version.

65 I let Myself be sought of them that asked not for Me; I let Myself be found of them that sought me not; I said, Hineni, behold Me, unto a Goy (Nation, People) that was not called by My Shem.

I have spread out My yad kol hayom unto an Am Sorer (stubbornly rebellious people), which walketh in a derech lo tov, after their own machshevot (thoughts);

HaAm that provoketh Me to anger continually to My face; that sacrificeth in ganot (gardens), and burneth sacrifices upon brick;

Which remain among the kevarim, and spend the night in closed places, which eat basar hachazir, and broth of piggulim (unclean meat, Lv.7:18) in their vessels;

Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am kadosh to thee (holier than thou). These are a smoke in My nose, an eish that burneth kol hayom.

Hinei, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but will recompense fully, even recompense into their kheyk,

Your avonot, and the iniquities of your avot together, saith Hashem, because they burned sacrifices upon the mountains, and insulted Me upon the hills; therefore will I measure their former peulot into their kheyk.

Thus saith Hashem, As the tirosh is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a brocha is in it; so will I do in behalf of My Servants, that I may not destroy them all.

And I will bring forth a zera out of Ya’akov, and out of Yehudah a yoresh (inheritor) of My mountains; and Mine Bechir (Chosen ones) shall inherit it, and My Servants shall dwell there.

10 And Sharon shall be a meadow for tzon, and the valley of Achor a place for the flock to lie down, for Ami (My People) who seek Me.

11 But ye are they that forsake Hashem, that forget My Har Kadosh, that prepare a shulchan for Fortune, and that furnish the drink offering for Destiny.

12 Therefore will I destine you for the cherev, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughtering place; because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spoke, ye did not hear; but did the rah before Mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

13 Therefore thus saith Adonoi Hashem, Hinei, My Servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; hinei, My Servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; hinei, My Servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed;

14 Hinei, My Servants shall sing for joy of lev, but ye shall cry out from anguish of lev, and shall wail from brokenness of ruach.

15 And ye shall leave your shem for a curse unto My Bechir; for Adonoi Hashem shall put thee to death, and call His Avadim by another shem;

16 That he who blesseth himself in ha’aretz shall bless himself by Elohei Omein (the G-d of [the] Amen, the G-d of Truth); and he that taketh an oath in ha’aretz shall take the oath by Elohei Omein; because the former tzoros are forgotten, and because they are hid from Mine eyes.

17 For, hinei, I create Shomayim Chadashim and eretz Chadashah; and the rishonot shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

18 But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, hinei, I create Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

19 And I will rejoice in Yerushalayim, and joy in Ami; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying out.

20 There shall be no more in there an infant of days, nor a zaken (old man) that hath not filled his days; for he that shall die a hundred years old will be regarded a na’ar; but the choteh (sinner), a hundred years old, will be accursed.

21 And they shall build batim (houses), and inhabit them; and they shall plant kramim (vineyards), and eat the fruit of them.

22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat; for as the days of HaEtz are the days of Ami, and Mine Bechir shall long enjoy the ma’aseh of their hands.

23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for misfortune; for they are the Zera Beruchei Hashem (Seed of the Blessed ones of Hashem), and their offspring with them.

24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet medaberim (speaking), I will hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and aphar shall be the lechem of the nachash. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My Har Kadosh, saith Hashem. [T.N. This last chapter makes a reference to Gehinnom and the just retribution coming.]