以賽亞書32:9-20

32:9 安逸的婦女啊，起來聽我的聲音！無慮的女子啊，側耳聽我的言語！
32:10 無慮的女子啊，再過一年多，必受騷擾；因為無葡萄可摘，無果子（或譯：禾稼）可收。
32:11 安逸的婦女啊，要戰兢；無慮的女子啊，要受騷擾。脫去衣服，赤著身體，腰束麻布。
32:12 她們必為美好的田地和多結果的葡萄樹，搥胸哀哭。
32:13 荊棘蒺藜必長在我百姓的地上，又長在歡樂的城中和一切快樂的房屋上。
32:14 因為宮殿必被撇下，多民的城必被離棄；山岡望樓永為洞穴，作野驢所喜樂的，為羊群的草場。
32:15 等到聖靈從上澆灌我們，曠野就變為肥田，肥田看如樹林。
32:16 那時，公平要居在曠野；公義要居在肥田。
32:17 公義的果效必是平安；公義的效驗必是平穩，直到永遠。
32:18 我的百姓必住在平安的居所，安穩的住處，平靜的安歇所。
32:19 （但要降冰雹打倒樹林；城必全然拆平。）
32:20 你們在各水邊撒種、牧放牛驢的有福了！

Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;

you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.

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In little more than a year

you will shudder, you complacent ones;

for the vintage will fail,

the fruit harvest will not come.

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Tremble, you women who are at ease,

shudder, you complacent ones;

strip, and make yourselves bare,

and put sackcloth on your loins.

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Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,

for the fruitful vine,

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for the soil of my people

growing up in thorns and briers;

yes, for all the joyous houses

in the jubilant city.

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For the palace will be forsaken,

the populous city deserted;

the hill and the watchtower

will become dens forever,

the joy of wild asses,

a pasture for flocks;

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until a spirit from on high is poured out on us,

and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,

and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

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Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,

and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

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The effect of righteousness will be peace,

and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

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My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,

in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

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The forest will disappear completely,

and the city will be utterly laid low.

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Happy will you be who sow beside every stream,

who let the ox and the donkey range freely.

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    先知在這裡宣告：「公義的果效必是平安；公義的效驗必是平穩，直到永遠。我的百姓必住在平安的居所，安穩的住處，平靜的安歇所。」

    我們聽了先知的宣告知道：公義帶來平安。也就是說：有公義，才會有平安！而公義是甚麼呢？就是人和上帝有正確和合宜的關係。而這樣的關係是透過耶穌基督的捨身成為贖罪祭，和我們因著信來領受這樣的果效。這本身是上帝的恩典，上帝賜給我們是沒有條件的。

    這樣的公義帶來我們與上帝的和好，這就是平安了！而與上帝和好的福音，就是耶穌基督的福音。耶穌基督就是上帝與人之間，唯一的中保，除祂以外別無拯救，就是聖靈也是引導我們靠著耶穌基督的恩典，與上帝有和好的關係，這就是平安了！