以賽亞書 45:20-25
現代文譯本(2019)
20 上主說:
萬國萬民一起來吧,
亡國後還存活的人都來受審!
抬著木偶在街上遊行、
向不能救他們的偶像祈禱的人
都是無知之徒!
21 來吧,到法庭來申訴!
讓被告彼此商量吧。
是誰早已預言要發生的事?
不是我—上主嗎?
我以外沒有上帝;
我是公正、拯救的上帝,
我以外沒有別的。
22 全世界的人哪,
你們歸向我就得救。
我是上帝,再沒有別的。
23 我講真理,
我的應許永不改變。
我指著自己的生命發誓:
人人要向我屈膝下拜;
眾口要宣誓對我效忠。
24 他們要說,唯有藉著我
才能得到勝利和力量;
恨惡我的人都要蒙羞。
25 我—上主要拯救以色列所有的子孫;
他們要頌讚我。
ESV
20 “Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
21 Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
22 “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
23 By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’
24 “Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
25 In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.”
《二十一世紀聖經新譯》
第22-25節末後的幾節很值得重視,第一是其中描述的普世性及誠心的悔改;第二是新約聖經曾引用23至24節,在腓立比書二章10至11節直指基督(又在羅十四9、11,間接地指基督)。可參彼得前書三章14至15節如何引用以賽亞書八章12節下及13節上。
