以赛亚书 第 64 章

¹愿你裂天而降；愿山在你面前震动─Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

²好像火烧干柴，又像火将水烧开，使你敌人知道你的名，使列国在你面前发颤！As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

³你曾行我们不能逆料可畏的事。那时你降临，山岭在你面前震动。When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

⁴从古以来，人未曾听见、未曾耳闻、未曾眼见在你以外有甚么神为等候他的人行事。For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

⁵你迎接那欢喜行义、记念你道的人；你曾发怒，我们仍犯罪；这景况已久，我们还能得救么？Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

⁶我们都像不洁净的人；所有的义都像污秽的衣服。我们都像叶子渐渐枯干；我们的罪孽好像风把我们吹去。But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁷并且无人求告你的名；无人奋力抓住你。原来你掩面不顾我们，使我们因罪孽消化。And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

⁸耶和华啊，现在你仍是我们的父！我们是泥，你是窑匠；我们都是你手的工作。But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

⁹耶和华啊，求你不要大发震怒，也不要永远记念罪孽。求你垂顾我们，我们都是你的百姓。Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

¹⁰你的圣邑变为旷野。锡安变为旷野；耶路撒冷成为荒场。Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹我们圣洁华美的殿─就是我们列祖赞美你的所在被火焚烧；我们所羡慕的美地尽都荒废。Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

¹²耶和华啊，有这些事，你还忍得住么？你仍静默使我们深受苦难么？Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?