以赛亚书59-先知

以赛亚书59章中

¹Listen! The Lord’s arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call. ²It’s your sins that have cut you off from God.Because of your sins, he has turned awayand will not listen anymore. ³Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin.Your lips are full of lies, and your mouth spews corruption. ⁵They hatch deadly snakesand weave spiders’ webs.Whoever eats their eggs will die;whoever cracks them will hatch a viper. ⁷Their feet run to do evil, and they rush to commit murder.They think only about sinning.Misery and destruction always follow them. ⁸They don’t know where to find peaceor what it means to be just and good.They have mapped out crooked roads, and no one who follows them knows a moment’s peace.

⁹So there is no justice among us, and we know nothing about right living.We look for light but find only darkness.We look for bright skies but walk in gloom. ¹⁰We grope like the blind along a wall, feeling our way like people without eyes.Even at brightest noontime, we stumble as though it were dark.Among the living, we are like the dead. ¹¹We growl like hungry bears;we moan like mournful doves.We look for justice, but it never comes.We look for rescue, but it is far away from us. ¹³We know we have rebelled and have denied the Lord.We have turned our backs on our God.We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies. ¹⁴Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found.Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed. ¹⁶He was amazed to see that no one intervenedto help the oppressed.So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm, and his justice sustained him. ¹⁷He put on righteousness as his body armorand placed the helmet of salvation on his head.He clothed himself with a robe of vengeanceand wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion. ¹⁸He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds.His fury will fall on his foes.He will pay them back even to the ends of the earth. ¹⁹In the west, people will respect the name of the Lord;in the east, they will glorify him.For he will come like a raging flood tidedriven by the breath of the Lord.#59:19 Or When the enemy comes like a raging flood tide, / the Spirit of the Lord will drive him back. ²⁰“The Redeemer will come to Jerusalemto buy back those in Israelwho have turned from their sins, ”#59:20 Hebrew The Redeemer will come to Zion / to buy back those in Jacob / who have turned from their sins. Greek version reads The one who rescues will come on behalf of Zion, / and he will turn Jacob away from ungodliness. Compare Rom 11:26.says the Lord. ²¹“And this is my covenant with them, ” says the Lord. “My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children’s children forever. I, the Lord, have spoken!

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以赛亚书59章 中

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