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每日讀經 – 12/24 (三) 以賽亞書 42:14-17

12/24 (三)

以賽亞書 42:14-17

現代中文譯本(2019)
14 上帝說:
我已經沉默好久,
沒有理會我的子民。
現在我要採取行動了,
要像陣痛的婦人大聲喊叫。
15 我要毀滅大小山岡,
使草木枯乾。
我要使河流變為沙漠,
使水池乾涸。
16 我要領瞎眼的子民上路,
走上陌生的道路;
我要使他們的黑暗變為光明,
使崎嶇小路變成康莊大道。
我要實現這事,絕不失信。
17 那些相信假神的人一定敗退;
倚賴偶像的人一定蒙羞。

ESV
14 For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.
15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.
16 And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.
17 They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, “You are our gods.”

《二十一世紀聖經新譯》
這里使用的比喻:「像戰士」(13節)及「像產難的婦人」(14節),使我們看見神的恩典並沒有軟化了神的態度。相反,祂對邪惡的憤怒(13節)及急切對付的態度(14節;參路十二50),對於受罪惡傷害的人來說,也是很大的激勵,就如神的憐憫(16節上)及恒切不變的態度一樣。救恩只有通過審判才會臨到,不肯悔改的人將不會蒙恩(17節)。參六十三章1至6節,這嚴酷的審判正是五十三章的補充。