上帝施恩典
1耶和华说：“口渴的人啊，来喝水吧！
没有钱的人啊，
来买东西吃吧！
买酒买奶都不用付钱。
2你们为什么花钱买不能充饥的食物？
为什么拿辛苦赚来的钱买不能令人饱足的东西？
要留心听我的话，
就可以吃美物，
享受丰盛的佳肴。
3你们要到我这里来，
侧耳听我的话，就必得到生命。
我要跟你们立永久的约，
将应许给大卫的可靠恩福赐给你们。
4我使他统管万民，
向万民做见证。
5看啊，你必召集不认识的国民，
不认识你的国民必来投奔你，
因为以色列的圣者——你的上帝耶和华赐给你荣耀。”
6要趁着还可以找到耶和华的时候寻找祂，
趁祂还在附近的时候求告祂。
7愿邪恶的人停止作恶，
不义的人除掉恶念。
愿他们归向耶和华，
祂必怜悯他们；
愿他们归向我们的上帝，
祂必仁慈地赦免他们。
8耶和华说：“我的意念并非你们的意念，
我的道路并非你们的道路。
9正如天高过地，
我的道路也高过你们的道路，
我的意念也高过你们的意念。
10雨雪从天降下，并不返回，
而是要滋润大地，
使地上的植物发芽生长，
叫播种的有种子，
吃饭的有食粮。
11同样，我口中所出的话也不会徒然返回，
而是要成就我的旨意，
实现我的计划。
12你们必欢欢喜喜地出来，
平平安安地蒙引导，
大山小山都要在你们面前歌唱，
田野的树木也都拍掌。
13曾经的荆棘之地必长出松树，
曾经的蒺藜之地必长出番石榴。
这便是永远长存的记号，
以宣扬耶和华的名。”
Invitation to the Thirsty
1“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”
6Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
