主的仆人
1众海岛啊，听我说！
远方的众民啊，要留心听！
我还没有出生，
耶和华就呼召我；
我还没有离开母腹，
祂就点我的名。
2祂使我的口像利剑，
用祂的手护庇我；
祂使我成为磨亮的箭，
把我藏在祂的箭囊中。
3祂对我说：“以色列啊，
你是我的仆人，
我要借着你彰显我的荣耀。”
4但我说：“我虚耗精力，
徒劳无功。
然而，耶和华必公正地待我，
我的报酬在我的上帝那里。”
5我在母腹之中，耶和华便塑造我做祂的仆人，
叫我领雅各归向祂，
把以色列人召集到祂那里。
我在耶和华眼中是尊贵的，
我的上帝是我的力量。
6祂对我说：“我不仅要你做我的仆人，
去复兴雅各的众支派，
使以色列的余民重归故土，
我还要使你成为外族人的光，
好把我的救恩带到地极。”
7以色列的救赎主和圣者——耶和华对受藐视、
被本国人憎恨、
遭官长奴役的那位说：
“因为拣选你的以色列的圣者耶和华是信实的，
君王必在你面前肃然起立，
首领必在你面前俯伏下拜。”
以色列的复兴
8耶和华说：
“在悦纳的时候，我应允了你；
在拯救的日子，我帮助了你。
我要保护你，
使你做我跟民众立约的中保，
复兴家园，
分配荒凉的产业。
9你要对被囚禁的人说，
‘出来吧！’
要对暗牢中的人说，
‘你们自由了。’
他们在路上必有吃的，
光秃的山岭必有食物。
10他们不再饥渴，
也不再被热风和烈日灼伤，
因为怜悯他们的那位必引导他们，
领他们到泉水边。
11我要使我的群山变为通途，
修筑我的大路。
12看啊，他们必从远方来，
有的来自北方，有的来自西方，
还有的来自希尼49:12 “希尼”可能指遥远的东方或南方某地。。”
13诸天啊，要欢呼！
大地啊，要快乐！
群山啊，要歌唱！
因为耶和华必安慰祂的子民，
怜悯祂受苦的百姓。
14但锡安说：“耶和华撇弃了我，
主把我忘了。”
15耶和华说：“母亲岂能忘记自己吃奶的婴儿，
不怜悯自己亲生的孩子？
就算有母亲忘记，
我也不会忘记你。
16看啊，我已经把你铭刻在我的手掌上，
你的墙垣在我的看顾之下。
17你的儿女必很快回来，
毁灭和破坏你的必离你而去。
18举目四下看看吧，
你的儿女正聚集到你这里。
我凭我的永恒起誓，
你必把他们作为饰物戴在身上，
如新娘一样用他们妆扮自己。
这是耶和华说的。
19“你那曾经荒废、凄凉、
遭到毁坏之地现在必容不下你的居民，
那些吞灭你的人必远远地离开你。
20你流亡期间所生的子女必在你耳边说，
‘这地方太小了，
再给我们一些地方住吧。’
21你会在心里问，‘我丧失了儿女、
不再生育、流亡在外、漂流不定，
谁给我生了这些儿女？
谁把他们养大？
我孤身一人，
他们是从哪里来的？’”
22主耶和华说：
“我必向列国招手，
向万民竖立我的旗帜，
他们必抱着你的儿子、
背着你的女儿回来。
23列王必做你的养父，
王后必做你的褓姆。
他们必向你俯伏下拜，
舔你脚上的尘土。
那时你便知道我是耶和华，
信靠我的必不致失望。”
24勇士抢去的能夺回来吗？
暴君掳走的能救回来吗？
25但耶和华说：
“勇士掳去的必被夺回，
暴君抢去的必被救出。
我必与你的敌人争战，
拯救你的儿女。
26我要使那些欺压你的人吞吃自己的肉，
喝自己的血喝得酩酊大醉，
好像喝酒一样。
那时候，世人都必知道我耶和华是你的救主，
是你的救赎主，
是雅各的大能者。”
The Servant of the Lord
1Listen to me, you islands;
hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born the Lord called me;
from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.
2He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me into a polished arrow
and concealed me in his quiver.
3He said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”
4But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,
and my reward is with my God.”
5And now the Lord says—
he who formed me in the womb to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel to himself,
for I am49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be honored in the eyes of the Lord
and my God has been my strength—
6he says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.
I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
7This is what the Lord says—
the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel—
to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation,
to the servant of rulers:
“Kings will see you and stand up,
princes will see and bow down,
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Restoration of Israel
8This is what the Lord says:
“In the time of my favor I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;
I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land
and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
9to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’
and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’
“They will feed beside the roads
and find pasture on every barren hill.
10They will neither hunger nor thirst,
nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.
He who has compassion on them will guide them
and lead them beside springs of water.
11I will turn all my mountains into roads,
and my highways will be raised up.
12See, they will come from afar—
some from the north, some from the west,
some from the region of Aswan.49:12 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text Sinim”
13Shout for joy, you heavens;
rejoice, you earth;
burst into song, you mountains!
For the Lord comforts his people
and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
14But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,
the Lord has forgotten me.”
15“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
16See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.
17Your children hasten back,
and those who laid you waste depart from you.
18Lift up your eyes and look around;
all your children gather and come to you.
As surely as I live,” declares the Lord,
“you will wear them all as ornaments;
you will put them on, like a bride.
19“Though you were ruined and made desolate
and your land laid waste,
now you will be too small for your people,
and those who devoured you will be far away.
20The children born during your bereavement
will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too small for us;
give us more space to live in.’
21Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who bore me these?
I was bereaved and barren;
I was exiled and rejected.
Who brought these up?
I was left all alone,
but these—where have they come from?’ ”
22This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“See, I will beckon to the nations,
I will lift up my banner to the peoples;
they will bring your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their hips.
23Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground;
they will lick the dust at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”
24Can plunder be taken from warriors,
or captives be rescued from the fierce49:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text righteous?
25But this is what the Lord says:
“Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,
and plunder retrieved from the fierce;
I will contend with those who contend with you,
and your children I will save.
26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.
Then all mankind will know
that I, the Lord, am your Savior,
your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
