12/25 (四)
以賽亞書 42：18-22
現代中文譯本（2019）
18 上主說：
耳聾的人哪，聽吧！
瞎眼的人哪，看吧！
19 世上有誰比我的僕人更盲目？
有誰比我差遣的使者更耳聾？
20 以色列啊，你看了許多，卻沒有心得；
你聽了許多，卻沒有領悟。
21 上主一心要伸張正義；
他要使法律發揚光大。
22 然而，他的子民受欺壓；
他們被關在地牢裡，
被囚禁在監獄中。
他們被搶劫，遭蹂躪，
沒有人來搭救他們。
ESV
18 Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see!
19 Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?
20 He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.
21 The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
《二十一世紀聖經新譯》
在這些篇章中，不斷看見神的恩典及祂子民執意叛逆的交替出現；這些子民決意自行毀滅，但神仍堅決要恩待他們，這可見於四十三章21節。
