1 神從東方激動了一個人眾海島啊！你們要在我面前靜默，願萬民重新得力。讓他們近前來，然後說話，讓我們聚在一起辯論吧！
1“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
2誰從東方激動了一個人，憑公義把他召到自己的腳前來？他把列國交在他面前，他制伏眾王；他使他們在他的刀下化作灰塵，他使他們在他的弓下像碎秸一樣被吹散。
2Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
3他追趕他們，安然走過他的腳未曾走過的路。
3He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
4誰定這事並且作成？誰從起初預定萬代呢？就是我耶和華，我是首先的，與最後的人同在的，也是我。
4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
5眾海島看見了，就都懼怕；地極也都戰兢；他們都近前來。
5The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.
6各人彼此幫助，對自己的兄弟說：“要堅強！”
6Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
7木匠堅固金匠，用鎚打光金屬的，鼓勵打砧的；論銲工說：“銲得好！”又用釘子釘穩了。使偶像不致動搖。
7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
8 神必扶助其子民但你以色列，我的僕人啊！雅各，我所揀選、我朋友亞伯拉罕的後裔啊！
8“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
9你是我從地極抓來的，我從地的遠方召你來，對你說：“你是我的僕人，我揀選了你，並沒有棄絕你。”
9You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;’
10不要懼怕，因為我與你同在；不要四處張望，因為我是你的 神，我必堅固你，我必幫助你；我必用公義的右手扶持你。
10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
11看哪！向你發怒的都必蒙羞受辱；與你相爭的人，都要如同無有，並要滅亡。
11Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
12與你爭競的人，你要尋找他們，卻找不著；與你交戰的人，都必如同無有，好像虛無。
12You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.
13因為我，耶和華你們的 神，緊握著你的右手，對你說：“不要懼怕，我必幫助你。”
13For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
14蟲子雅各啊！以色列人哪！你不要懼怕。我必幫助你；這是耶和華說的。你的救贖主，就是以色列的聖者。
14Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
15看哪！我要使你成為打糧的器具，又新，又鋒利，又有很多利齒；你要揚淨群山，把它們壓得粉碎，又使岡陵變成糠秕。
15Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
16你必簸揚它們，風要把它們吹去，旋風也要把它們吹散；但你要靠耶和華喜樂，以以色列的聖者誇耀。
16You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17困苦和貧窮的人尋求水，卻沒有水；他們的舌頭因口渴而乾燥；我耶和華必應允他們，我以色列的 神必不離棄他們。
17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18我要在光禿的高處開闢江河，在山谷之間開闢泉源；我要使曠野變為水池，使乾地變成水泉。
18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19我要在曠野種上香柏樹、皂莢樹、番石榴樹和野橄欖樹；我要在沙漠中栽種松樹、杉樹和黃楊樹，
19I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
20好叫人看見了，就知道；思想過，就都明白，這是耶和華的手所作的，是以色列的聖者所造的。
20that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21假神絕不可靠耶和華說：“呈上你們的案件吧！”雅各的王說：“把你們有力的證據拿來吧！”
21Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
22讓它們前來告訴我們將要發生的事。以前的是甚麼事，讓它們告訴我們，好叫我們用心思想，得知事情的結局。或者向我們宣告那要來的事。
22“Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
23把以後要來的事告訴我們，好叫我們知道你們是神；你們作這些事，或降福或降禍，以致我們彼此對望，一齊觀看。
23Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
24看哪！你們屬於無有，你們的作為都屬於虛空，那選擇你們的是可厭惡的。
24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
25我從北方興起一人，他就來了；他從日出之地而來，呼求我的名；他必來踐踏掌權的，好像踐踏灰泥，又像陶匠踹泥一樣。
25“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26誰從起初講說這事，使我們知道呢？誰從先前說明，以致我們說“他沒有錯”呢？誰也沒有說明，誰也沒有宣告，誰也沒有聽見你們的話！
26Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
27我首先對錫安說：“看哪，看看這些！”我要把一位報好信息的賜給耶路撒冷。
27I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
28我看的時候，卻沒有一個人；他們中間也沒有謀士，我問他們的時候，可以回答一句話。
28When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
29看哪！他們都是無有，他們所作的都是虛無；他們所鑄的偶像都是風，都是虛空。
29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.