1 神揀選的僕人及他的使命眾海島啊！你們要聽我的話。遠方的萬族啊！你們要留心聽。我在母胎的時候，耶和華就呼召了我；我出母腹的時候，他就提了我的名。
1Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:
2他使我的口如快刀，把我藏在他手的陰影之下；他又使我成為磨亮的箭，把我藏在他的箭袋裡。
2and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:
3他對我說：“你是我的僕人以色列，我要藉著你得榮耀。”
3and he said to me, “You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
4但我說：“我勞碌是徒然的；我用盡氣力，是虛無虛空的；然而我當得的公理是在耶和華那裡，我的賞賜是在我的 神那裡。”
4But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
5現在，耶和華說：（他自我還在母胎的時候，就造了我作他的僕人，好使雅各回轉歸向他，使以色列可以聚集到他那裡；我在耶和華眼中被看為尊貴，我的 神是我的力量。）
5Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength);
6“你作我的僕人，使雅各眾支派復興，使以色列中得保全的歸回，只是小事，我還要使你作列國的光，使我的救恩傳到地極。”
6yes, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
7以色列的救贖主，以色列的聖者耶和華，對那被人藐視的、被本國憎惡的、被統治者奴役的，這樣說：“君王看見了，就必起立，領袖看見了，也要下拜，都因信實的耶和華，就是揀選了你的、以色列的聖者的緣故。”
7Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
8耶和華這樣說：“在悅納的時候，我應允了你，在拯救的日子，我幫助了你；我要保護你，使你作人民的中保，復興那地，使人承受荒涼之地作產業，
8Thus says Yahweh, “In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
9對那些被囚的說：‘你們出來吧！’對那些在黑暗中的人說：‘你們現身吧！’他們沿途必得餵養，一切光禿的高處必成為他們的草場。
9saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
10他們必不飢餓，也不口渴，炎熱和太陽必不傷害他們，因為那憐憫他們的，要引領他們，帶領他們到水泉的旁邊。
10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them.
11我必使我的眾山成為道路，我的大道都必被修高。
11I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12看哪！有些人從遠方而來；看哪！有些從北方，從西方而來，還有些從色尼姆地而來。”
12Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”
13諸天哪！你們要歡呼。大地啊！你當快樂。眾山啊！你們要發聲歡呼。因為耶和華已經安慰了他的子民，也必憐憫他受困苦的人。
13Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
14 神的垂顧與復興但錫安說：“耶和華離棄了我，我的主忘記了我。”
14But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
15婦人怎能忘記她吃奶的嬰孩，不憐憫她親生的兒子呢？即使她們可能忘記，我也不會忘記你。
15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
16看哪！我已經把你刻在我的掌上；你的城牆常常在我面前。
16Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
17重建你的要急速歸回，那些毀壞你的和那些使你荒廢的，都必離你而去。
17Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.
18你舉目向四周觀看吧！他們都集合到你那裡來。耶和華說：“我指著我的永生起誓，你要披戴他們，如同披戴裝飾品；你要以他們作華帶束腰，像新婦一樣。
18Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
19至於你那些被毀壞荒廢之處和你那些被拆毀之地，現在給眾人居住必顯為太狹窄了，那些吞滅你的都必遠離你。
19“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.
20你喪子以後所生的兒女還要說給你聽，說：‘這地方給我居住太狹窄了；求你給我預備地方居住吧！’
20The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
21那時你心裡必說：‘我既喪子，又不能生育；我是被擄的，又是被放逐在外的，誰給我生了這些孩子呢？誰把這些孩子養大呢？看哪！我獨自一人被撇下，這些孩子是從哪裡來的呢？’”
21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?’”
22主耶和華這樣說：“看哪！我必向列國舉手，我要向萬民豎立我的旗幟；他們要把你的兒子都抱在懷中帶來，把你的女兒都放在肩上背來。
22Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23列國的君王要作你的養父，他們的王后必作你的保姆；他們必臉伏於地向你下拜，舐你腳上的塵土。那麼，你就知道我是耶和華，那些仰望我的決不會羞愧。”
23Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
24被搶去的怎能從勇士手中奪回呢？被俘擄的怎能從強暴者的手裡救出來呢？
24Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
25但耶和華這樣說：“就是勇士所俘擄的，也可以奪回，強暴者所搶去的，也可以救出來；與你相爭的，我必與他們相爭；你的兒女，我卻要拯救。
25But thus says Yahweh, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
26我要使那些欺壓你的人，吃自己的肉；他們必喝自己的血醉倒，好像喝了甜酒一樣；那麼所有的人都必知道，我耶和華是你的拯救者，是你的救贖主，是雅各的大能者。”
26I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”