1:2 天哪，要聽！地啊，側耳而聽！因為耶和華說：我養育兒女，將他們養大，他們竟悖逆我。
1:3 牛認識主人，驢認識主人的槽，以色列卻不認識；我的民卻不留意。
1:4 嗐！犯罪的國民，擔著罪孽的百姓；行惡的種類，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，與他生疏，往後退步。
1:5 你們為甚麼屢次悖逆，還要受責打嗎？你們已經滿頭疼痛，全心發昏。
1:6 從腳掌到頭頂，沒有一處完全的，盡是傷口、青腫，與新打的傷痕，都沒有收口，沒有纏裹，也沒有用膏滋潤。
1:7 你們的地土已經荒涼；你們的城邑被火焚毀。你們的田地在你們眼前為外邦人所侵吞，既被外邦人傾覆就成為荒涼。
1:8 僅存錫安城（原文是女子），好像葡萄園的草棚，瓜田的茅屋，被圍困的城邑。
1:9 若不是萬軍之耶和華給我們稍留餘種，我們早已像所多瑪、蛾摩拉的樣子了。
1:10 你們這所多瑪的官長啊，要聽耶和華的話！你們這蛾摩拉的百姓啊，要側耳聽我們上帝的訓誨！
Hear,
O heavens, and listen, O earth;
for the Lord has spoken:
I reared
children and brought them up,
but they have
rebelled against me.
The ox knows
its owner,
and the donkey
its master’s crib;
but Israel does
not know,
my people do
not understand.
Ah, sinful
nation,
people laden
with iniquity,
offspring who do
evil,
children who
deal corruptly,
who have
forsaken the Lord,
who have
despised the Holy One of Israel,
who are utterly
estranged!
Why
do you seek further beatings?
Why do you
continue to rebel?
The whole head
is sick,
and the whole
heart faint.
From the sole
of the foot even to the head,
there is no
soundness in it,
but bruises and
sores
and bleeding
wounds;
they have not
been drained, or bound up,
or softened
with oil.
Your
country lies desolate,
your cities are
burned with fire;
in your very
presence
aliens devour
your land;
it is desolate,
as overthrown by foreigners.
And daughter
Zion is left
like a booth in
a vineyard,
like a shelter
in a cucumber field,
like a besieged
city.
If the Lord of hosts
had not left us
a few survivors,
we would have
been like Sodom,
and become like
Gomorrah.
Hear
the word of the Lord,
you rulers of
Sodom!
Listen to the
teaching of our God,
you people of
Gomorrah!
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以賽亞先知在此說猶大人的悖逆，雖然他們是上帝的選民，仍然是悖逆者，是上帝所憎惡的，就像所多瑪和蛾摩拉的人民是會遭上帝毀滅的民！但是，上帝不忍心將他們毀滅，還是為他們留下餘種，使上帝的選民不致斷絕。當然，上帝是期盼餘種悔改。
同樣基督徒也是上帝在這世界的餘種，以至於使得人不致被滅絕。因為上帝造人的目的，是要人來彰顯祂的榮耀！所以，上帝必定保守祂所愛的人，透過這些人完成祂的使命。
而上帝揀選餘種是透過耶穌基督，若不是耶穌基督，我們就像所多瑪、蛾摩拉的人民一般會滅亡！是耶穌基使我們不致滅亡，反得永生！
