1没有人关心义人的死亡，
没有人明白虔诚人的去世。
其实义人去世是脱离灾难。
2这些正直的人得享平安，
在坟墓里得到安息。
3耶和华说：“你们这些巫婆的儿子，
奸夫和妓女的孩子，
上前来吧！
4你们在嘲笑谁，
向谁吐舌头呢？
你们难道不是悖逆的儿女、
诡诈的子孙吗？
5你们在橡树下，在青翠树下以淫乱的方式祭拜假神，
在山谷中和石缝间杀儿女作祭物。
6你们把谷中光滑的石头当神明敬奉，
效忠于它们，
向它们浇奠献祭。
我岂能容忍？
7你们在高山上淫乱、献祭，
8在门后供奉神像。
你们背弃我，
脱衣上床跟它们肆意苟合，
与它们立约，
迷恋它们的床，
爱看它们的淫态。
9你们带着橄榄油和许多香料去拜假神，
差遣使者到远方，
甚至去阴间寻找神明。
10虽然遥远的路途使你们疲倦，
你们却从不放弃。
你们找到了新的力量，
所以没有晕倒。
11“你们惧怕谁，
以致对我说谎，
不把我放在心上，忘记我？
你们不再敬畏我，
是因为我长期沉默吗？
12我要揭露你们的所谓公义行为，
它们对你们毫无益处。
13当你们呼求的时候，
让你们收集的神像来救你们吧！
风会把它们刮去，
就是一口气也会把它们吹走。
但投靠我的必承受这片土地，
拥有我的圣山。”
主安慰痛悔者
14耶和华说：
“要修路，修路，铺平道路，
清除我子民路上的障碍。”
15那至高至上、永远长存的圣者说：
“我住在至高至圣之处，
但我也跟痛悔、
谦卑的人同住，
使他们心灵振作。
16我不会永远指责，
也不会一直发怒，
以免世人——我所造的生灵昏倒。
17他们贪婪的罪恶使我发怒，
我惩罚他们，愤怒地转脸不理他们，
他们却怙恶不悛。
18我看见了他们的所作所为，
但我还是要医治他们，
引领他们，
使他们和那些哀伤的人得安慰，
19使他们开口赞美。
愿远近各方的人都得到平安！
我要医治他们。
这是耶和华说的。
20然而，恶人就像波涛汹涌、
难以平静的大海，
海浪中涌出淤泥和污物。”
21我的上帝说：“他们必得不到平安。”
1The righteous perish,
and no-one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
and no-one understands
that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
2Those who walk uprightly
enter into peace;
they find rest as they lie in death.
3‘But you – come here, you children of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
4Who are you mocking?
At whom do you sneer
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not a brood of rebels,
the offspring of liars?
5You burn with lust among the oaks
and under every spreading tree;
you sacrifice your children in the ravines
and under the overhanging crags.
6The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;
indeed, they are your lot.
Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings
and offered grain offerings.
In view of all this, should I relent?
7You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;
there you went up to offer your sacrifices.
8Behind your doors and your doorposts
you have put your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,
you climbed into it and opened it wide;
you made a pact with those whose beds you love,
and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.
9You went to Molek57:9 Or to the king with olive oil
and increased your perfumes.
You sent your ambassadors57:9 Or idols far away;
you descended to the very realm of the dead!
10You wearied yourself by such going about,
but you would not say, “It is hopeless.”
You found renewal of your strength,
and so you did not faint.
11‘Whom have you so dreaded and feared
that you have not been true to me,
and have neither remembered me
nor taken this to heart?
Is it not because I have long been silent
that you do not fear me?
12I will expose your righteousness and your works,
and they will not benefit you.
13When you cry out for help,
let your collection of idols save you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
a mere breath will blow them away.
But whoever takes refuge in me
will inherit the land
and possess my holy mountain.’
Comfort for the contrite
14And it will be said:
‘Build up, build up, prepare the road!
Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.’
15For this is what the high and exalted One says –
he who lives for ever, whose name is holy:
‘I live in a high and holy place,
but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
16I will not accuse them for ever,
nor will I always be angry,
for then they would faint away because of me –
the very people I have created.
17I was enraged by their sinful greed;
I punished them, and hid my face in anger,
yet they kept on in their wilful ways.
18I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;
I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners,
19creating praise on their lips.
Peace, peace, to those far and near,’
says the Lord.
‘And I will heal them.’
20But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
which cannot rest,
whose waves cast up mire and mud.
21‘There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked.’
