以赛亚书 59 – CCB & NIRV

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

以赛亚书 59:1-21

因罪与主隔绝

1看啊,耶和华的臂膀并非没有力量拯救,

祂的耳朵并非聋得听不见。

2你们的罪过使你们与上帝隔绝,

你们的罪恶使祂转脸不看你们,

也不听你们的祈求。

3你们的手染满了血污,

手指沾满了罪恶。

你们的嘴唇吐出谎言,

舌头嘀咕恶事。

4无人按公义诉讼,

无人凭诚实申辩。

你们依靠诡辩,口出谎言,

心怀鬼胎,生出罪恶。

5你们孵毒蛇蛋,

人吃了这蛋必死,

蛋破后爬出毒蛇。

你们编蜘蛛网,

6这网不能做衣服遮盖你们。

你们行为邪恶,

做事残暴。

7你们奔向邪恶,

急于滥杀无辜;

你们心怀恶念,

所到之处大肆毁灭。

8你们不知道平安之路,

你们的行径毫无公正;

你们走歪门邪道,

跟从你们的必得不到平安。

9因此,正义远离我们,

公义临不到我们。

我们渴望光明,却得到黑暗;

我们渴望曙光,却仍然走在幽暗中。

10我们像盲人一样沿墙摸索,

像无眼睛的人一样探路。

我们在中午也跌跌撞撞,

如同走在晚上。

我们在强壮人当中如同死人。

11我们像熊一样咆哮,

如鸽子一般哀鸣。

我们渴望正义,却得不到;

渴望得到拯救,却遥不可及。

12因为我们在上帝面前过犯累累,

我们的罪恶向我们发出控诉。

我们被过犯缠身,自知有罪。

13我们悖逆,否认耶和华,

离弃我们的上帝,

说欺压、叛逆的话,

吐露心中编织的谎言。

14正义被赶逐,

公义不能靠近,

真理倒在街上,

正直被拒之门外。

15真理无处可寻,

远离恶事的人反成了猎物。

耶和华因正义荡然无存而不悦。

16祂因无人、

无一个人主持公道而惊讶,

于是亲自伸出臂膀,

以自己的公义施行拯救。

17祂以公义作铠甲,

以救恩作头盔,

以复仇作衣服,

以热忱作外袍。

18祂必按各人的行为报应各人,

向祂的敌人发烈怒,

惩罚祂的仇敌,

向众海岛施行报应。

19这样,日落之处的人必敬畏耶和华的名,

日出之地的人必对祂的荣耀肃然起敬。

祂必奔来,如被耶和华之气推动的急流。

20耶和华说:“必有一位救赎主来到锡安

雅各那些离弃罪恶的子孙那里。”

21耶和华说:“我亲自与他们立约,我赐给他们的灵和我放在他们口中的话,必不离开他们和他们的子子孙孙,从现在直到永远。这是耶和华说的。”

New International Reader’s Version

Isaiah 59:1-21

The Lord Sets His People Free

1People of Israel, the Lord’s arm is not too weak to save you.

His ears aren’t too deaf to hear your cry for help.

2But your sins have separated you from your God.

They have caused him to turn his face away from you.

So he won’t listen to you.

3Your hands and fingers are stained with blood.

You are guilty of committing murder.

Your mouth has told lies.

Your tongue says evil things.

4People aren’t fair when they present cases in court.

They aren’t honest when they state their case.

They depend on weak arguments. They tell lies.

They plan to make trouble.

Then they carry it out.

5The plans they make are like the eggs of poisonous snakes.

Anyone who eats those eggs will die.

When one of them is broken, a snake comes out.

6Those people weave their evil plans together like a spider’s web.

But the webs they make can’t be used as clothes.

They can’t cover themselves with what they make.

Their acts are evil.

They do things to harm others.

7They are always in a hurry to sin.

They run quickly to murder those who aren’t guilty.

They love to think up evil plans.

They leave a trail of harmful actions.

8They don’t know how to live at peace with others.

What they do isn’t fair.

They lead twisted lives.

No one who lives like that will enjoy peace and rest.

9We aren’t being treated fairly.

We haven’t been set free yet.

The God who always does what is right

hasn’t come to help us.

We look for light, but we see nothing but darkness.

We look for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

10Like blind people we feel our way along the wall.

We are like those who can’t see.

At noon we trip and fall as if the sun had already set.

Compared to those who are healthy, we are like dead people.

11All of us growl like hungry bears.

We sound like doves as we mourn.

We want the Lord to do what is fair and save us.

But he doesn’t do it.

We long for him to set us free.

But the time for that seems far away.

12That’s because we’ve done so many things he considers wrong.

Our sins prove that we are guilty.

The wrong things we’ve done are always troubling us.

We admit that we have sinned.

13We’ve refused to obey the Lord.

We’ve made evil plans against him.

We’ve turned our backs on our God.

We’ve stirred up conflict and refused to follow him.

We’ve told lies that came from our own minds.

14So people stop others from doing what is fair.

They keep them from doing what is right.

No one tells the truth in court anymore.

No one is honest there.

15In fact, truth can’t be found anywhere.

Those who refuse to do evil are attacked.

The Lord sees that people aren’t treating others fairly.

That makes him unhappy.

16He sees that there is no one who helps his people.

He is shocked that no one stands up for them.

So he will use his own powerful arm to save them.

He has the strength to do it because he is holy.

17He will put the armor of holiness on his chest.

He’ll put the helmet of salvation on his head.

He’ll pay people back for the wrong things they do.

He’ll wrap himself in anger as if it were a coat.

18He will pay his enemies back for what they have done.

He’ll pour his anger out on them.

He’ll punish those who attack him.

He’ll give the people in the islands what they have coming to them.

19People in the west will show respect for the Lord’s name.

People in the east will worship him because of his glory.

The Lord will come like a rushing river that was held back.

His breath will drive it along.

20“I set my people free. I will come to Mount Zion.

I will come to those in Jacob’s family who turn away from their sins,”

announces the Lord.

21“Here is the covenant I will make with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit is on you and will not leave you. I have put my words in your mouth. They will never leave your mouth. And they will never leave the mouths of your children or their children after them. That will be true for all time to come,” says the Lord.