¹先知谴责人民的罪

¹Lo, the hand of Jehovah Hath not been shortened from saving, Nor heavy his ear from hearing.

²而是你们的罪孽使你们与你们的　神隔绝；你们的罪恶使他掩面不顾你们，不听你们的祷告。

²But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you — from hearing.

³因为你们的手沾满了血，你们的指头被罪孽玷污，你们的嘴唇说虚谎的话，你们的舌头讲出凶言。

³For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

⁴没有人按公义求告，没有人凭诚实争辩；他们都倚靠虚无，说虚谎的话；所怀的是毒害，所生的是罪孽。

⁴There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

⁵他们所孵化的是毒蛇的蛋，他们所结的是蜘蛛的网，吃了它们的蛋，就一定死；蛋破了，就孵出蝮蛇来。

⁵Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.

⁶他们的网，不能作衣服，他们所作的，也不能遮盖自己；他们所作的是罪孽的作为，他们的手里满是强暴的行为。

⁶Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works [are] works of iniquity, And a deed of violence [is] in their hands.

⁷他们的脚奔跑行恶，他们急于流无辜人的血；他们的思想都是邪恶的思想，他们的行径全是破坏和毁灭。

⁷Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction [are] in their highways.

⁸平安的路，他们不认识，在他们的行径中没有公平；他们为自己使道路弯曲，行在其上的，都不认识平安。

⁸A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

⁹因此，公平远离我们，公义赶不上我们，我们指望亮光，不料，却是黑暗。我们指望光明，却行在幽暗中！

⁹Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness — in thick darkness we go,

¹⁰我们摸索墙壁，好像瞎子一样；我们摸索，如同没有眼睛的人一般；我们在中午跌倒，有如在黄昏跌倒一样；我们在肥壮的人中，好像死人一般。

¹⁰We feel like the blind [for] the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.

¹¹我们都咆哮如熊，悲鸣像鸽子；我们等候公平，却没有公平；指望拯救，拯救却离我们很远。

¹¹We make a noise as bears — all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation — it hath been far from us.

¹²因为我们的过犯在你面前增多，我们的罪作证控告我们，我们的过犯与我们在一起；我们知道我们的罪孽，

¹²For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions [are] with us, And our iniquities — we have known them.

¹³就是悖逆、否认耶和华，转去不跟从我们的　神，说欺压和背道的话，心里怀着谎言，随即说出来；

¹³Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

¹⁴公平被迫后退，公义站在远处；诚实在街上跌倒，正直不能进入。

¹⁴And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

¹⁵诚实缺乏，远离恶事的人反成为掠物。耶和华看见了，就看这为恶事，因为一点公平也没有。

¹⁵And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

¹⁶耶和华必拯救自己的子民他见无人行善，无人代求，就非常诧异，所以他用自己的膀臂为他施行拯救，以自己的公义扶持他。

¹⁶And He seeth that there is no man, And is astonished that there is no intercessor, And His own arm giveth salvation to Him, And His righteousness — it sustained Him.

¹⁷他穿上公义的铠甲，戴上救恩的头盔，穿上复仇的衣服，披上热心作外袍。

¹⁷And He putteth on righteousness as a breastplate, And an helmet of salvation on His head, And He putteth on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, And is covered, as [with] an upper-robe, [with] zeal.

¹⁸他要按照各人的行为施行报应，把烈怒降与他的敌人，把报应加给他的仇敌，向众海岛的人施行报应。

¹⁸According to deeds — so He repayeth. Fury to His adversaries, [their] deed to His enemies, To the isles [their] deed He repayeth.

¹⁹这样，人从日落之处必敬畏耶和华的名，从日出之地也必敬畏他的荣耀，仇敌像河水冲来的时候，耶和华的气必向他催逼。

¹⁹And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from the rising of the sun — His honour, When come in as a flood doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him.

²⁰“必有一位救赎主来到锡安，来到雅各家中那些转离过犯的人那里。”这是耶和华说的。

²⁰And come to Zion hath a redeemer, Even to captives of transgression in Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah.

²¹耶和华说：“至于我，我与他们所立的约是这样：我加在你们身上的灵和我放在你口里的话，必不离开你的口，不离开你后裔的口，也不离开你后裔的后裔的口，从现在直到永远；这是耶和华说的。”

²¹And I — this [is] My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that [is] on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed`s seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!