以賽亞書59:1-21

59:1 耶和華的膀臂並非縮短，不能拯救，耳朵並非發沉，不能聽見，
59:2 但你們的罪孽使你們與上帝隔絕；你們的罪惡使他掩面不聽你們。
59:3 因你們的手被血沾染，你們的指頭被罪孽玷汙，你們的嘴唇說謊言，你們的舌頭出惡語。
59:4 無一人按公義告狀，無一人憑誠實辯白；都倚靠虛妄，說謊言。所懷的是毒害；所生的是罪孽。
59:5 他們菢毒蛇蛋，結蜘蛛網；人吃這蛋必死。這蛋被踏，必出蝮蛇。
59:6 所結的網不能成為衣服；所做的也不能遮蓋自己。他們的行為都是罪孽；手所做的都是強暴。
59:7 他們的腳奔跑行惡；他們急速流無辜人的血；意念都是罪孽，所經過的路都荒涼毀滅。
59:8 平安的路，他們不知道；所行的事沒有公平。他們為自己修彎曲的路；凡行此路的都不知道平安。
59:9 因此，公平離我們遠，公義追不上我們。我們指望光亮，卻是黑暗，指望光明，卻行幽暗。
59:10 我們摸索牆壁，好像瞎子；我們摸索，如同無目之人。我們晌午絆腳，如在黃昏一樣；我們在肥壯人中，像死人一般。
59:11 我們咆哮如熊，哀鳴如鴿；指望公平，卻是沒有；指望救恩，卻遠離我們。
59:12 我們的過犯在你面前增多，罪惡作見證告我們；過犯與我們同在。至於我們的罪孽，我們都知道：
59:13 就是悖逆、不認識耶和華，轉去不跟從我們的上帝，說欺壓和叛逆的話，心懷謊言，隨即說出。
59:14 並且公平轉而退後，公義站在遠處；誠實在街上仆倒，正直也不得進入。
59:15 誠實少見；離惡的人反成掠物。那時，耶和華看見沒有公平，甚不喜悅。
59:16 他見無人拯救，無人代求，甚為詫異，就用自己的膀臂施行拯救，以公義扶持自己。
59:17 他以公義為鎧甲（或譯：護心鏡），以拯救為頭盔，以報仇為衣服，以熱心為外袍。
59:18 他必按人的行為施報，惱怒他的敵人，報復他的仇敵，向眾海島施行報應。
59:19 如此，人從日落之處必敬畏耶和華的名，從日出之地也必敬畏他的榮耀；因為仇敵好像急流的河水沖來，是耶和華之氣所驅逐的。
59:20 必有一位救贖主來到錫安─雅各族中轉離過犯的人那裡。這是耶和華說的。
59:21 耶和華說：「至於我與他們所立的約乃是這樣：我加給你的靈，傳給你的話，必不離你的口，也不離你後裔與你後裔之後裔的口，從今直到永遠；這是耶和華說的。」

Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save,
    nor his ear too dull to hear.
² But your iniquities have separated
    you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
    so that he will not hear.
³ For your hands are stained with blood,
    your fingers with guilt.
Your lips have spoken falsely,
    and your tongue mutters wicked things.
⁴ No one calls for justice;
    no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies;
    they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
⁵ They hatch the eggs of vipers
    and spin a spider's web.
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
    and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
⁶ Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;
    they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are evil deeds,
    and acts of violence are in their hands.
⁷ Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.
They pursue evil schemes;
    acts of violence mark their ways.
⁸ The way of peace they do not know;
    there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;
    no one who walks along them will know peace.

⁹ So justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;
    for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
¹⁰ Like the blind we grope along the wall,
    feeling our way like people without eyes.
At midday we stumble as if it were twilight;
    among the strong, we are like the dead.
¹¹ We all growl like bears;
    we moan mournfully like doves.
We look for justice, but find none;
    for deliverance, but it is far away.

¹² For our offenses are many in your sight,
    and our sins testify against us.
Our offenses are ever with us,
    and we acknowledge our iniquities:
¹³ rebellion and treachery against the Lord,
    turning our backs on our God,
inciting revolt and oppression,
    uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
¹⁴ So justice is driven back,
    and righteousness stands at a distance;
truth has stumbled in the streets,
    honesty cannot enter.
¹⁵ Truth is nowhere to be found,
    and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.

The Lord looked and was displeased
    that there was no justice.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no one,
    he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;
so his own arm achieved salvation for him,
    and his own righteousness sustained him.
¹⁷ He put on righteousness as his breastplate,
    and the helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on the garments of vengeance
    and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.
¹⁸ According to what they have done,
    so will he repay
wrath to his enemies
    and retribution to his foes;
    he will repay the islands their due.
¹⁹ From the west, people will fear the name of the Lord,
    and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory.
For he will come like a pent-up flood
    that the breath of the Lord drives along.^[a]

²⁰ 「The Redeemer will come to Zion,
    to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,」
declares the Lord.

²¹ 「As for me, this is my covenant with them,」 says the Lord. 「My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,」 says the Lord

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    先知以賽亞明明的宣告：「必有一位救贖主來到錫安─雅各族中轉離過犯的人那裡。」「我加給你的靈，傳給你的話，必不離你的口，也不離你後裔與你後裔之後裔的口，從今直到永遠！」

    先知預言的救贖主就是耶穌基督，教會透過耶穌基督就領受了聖靈，並且在聖靈的引導下，上帝的話成了教會的基石。正如禮拜中，上帝透過上帝的話來與我們相遇與團契，使我們在上帝的話中，生命得著更新，讓耶穌基督的救贖大功臨到我們！

    因此，我們要回到主耶穌面前，在基督裡享受上帝的恩典，使我們從滅亡轉向永生！也因為如此，我們要加入讚美上帝的行列，因為上帝所賜的恩典大過我們得過犯！

                                            

以賽亞書58章

          以賽亞書58:1-14  ,  以賽亞書58:1 ,

          公義與憐憫---以 賽 亞 書 58:6-10 , 以賽亞書58:8 ,

          以賽亞書58章9-12節  , 以賽亞書58章9-12節 , 

          以 賽 亞 書 58:9-12 , 

          以賽亞書58:11   ,  以賽亞書58:12  ,  

         以賽亞書58:13-14 ,

以賽亞書58:1-14

58:1 你要大聲喊叫，不可止息；揚起聲來，好像吹角。向我百姓說明他們的過犯；向雅各家說明他們的罪惡。
58:2 他們天天尋求我，樂意明白我的道，好像行義的國民，不離棄他們上帝的典章，向我求問公義的判語，喜悅親近上帝。
58:3 他們說：我們禁食，你為何不看見呢？我們刻苦己心，你為何不理會呢？看哪，你們禁食的日子仍求利益，勒逼人為你們做苦工。
58:4 你們禁食，卻互相爭競，以凶惡的拳頭打人。你們今日禁食，不得使你們的聲音聽聞於上。
58:5 這樣禁食豈是我所揀選、使人刻苦己心的日子嗎？豈是叫人垂頭像葦子，用麻布和爐灰鋪在他以下嗎？你這可稱為禁食、為耶和華所悅納的日子嗎？
58:6 我所揀選的禁食不是要鬆開凶惡的繩，解下軛上的索，使被欺壓的得自由，折斷一切的軛嗎？
58:7 不是要把你的餅分給飢餓的人，將飄流的窮人接到你家中，見赤身的給他衣服遮體，顧卹自己的骨肉而不掩藏嗎？
58:8 這樣，你的光就必發現如早晨的光；你所得的醫治要速速發明。你的公義必在你前面行；耶和華的榮光必作你的後盾。
58:9 那時你求告，耶和華必應允；你呼求，他必說：我在這裡。你若從你中間除掉重軛和指摘人的指頭，並發惡言的事，
58:10 你心若向飢餓的人發憐憫，使困苦的人得滿足，你的光就必在黑暗中發現；你的幽暗必變如正午。
58:11 耶和華也必時常引導你，在乾旱之地使你心滿意足，骨頭強壯。你必像澆灌的園子，又像水流不絕的泉源。
58:12 那些出於你的人必修造久已荒廢之處；你要建立拆毀累代的根基。你必稱為補破口的，和重修路徑與人居住的。
58:13 你若在安息日掉轉（或譯：謹慎）你的腳步，在我聖日不以操作為喜樂，稱安息日為可喜樂的，稱耶和華的聖日為可尊重的；而且尊敬這日，不辦自己的私事，不隨自己的私意，不說自己的私話，
58:14 你就以耶和華為樂。耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處，又以你祖雅各的產業養育你。這是耶和華親口說的。

「Shout it aloud, do not hold back.
    Raise your voice like a trumpet.
Declare to my people their rebellion
    and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.
² For day after day they seek me out;
    they seem eager to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that does what is right
    and has not forsaken the commands of its God.
They ask me for just decisions
    and seem eager for God to come near them.
³ 『Why have we fasted,』 they say,
    『and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
    and you have not noticed?』

「Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
    and exploit all your workers.
⁴ Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
    and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
    and expect your voice to be heard on high.
⁵ Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
    only a day for people to humble themselves?
Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed
    and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
    a day acceptable to the Lord?

⁶ 「Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
    and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
    and break every yoke?
⁷ Is it not to share your food with the hungry
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
⁸ Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness^[a] will go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
⁹ Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
    you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

「If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
    with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
¹⁰ and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
    and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
    and your night will become like the noonday.
¹¹ The Lord will guide you always;
    he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
    and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
    like a spring whose waters never fail.
¹² Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
    and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
    Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

¹³ 「If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath
    and from doing as you please on my holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a delight
    and the Lord』s holy day honorable,
and if you honor it by not going your own way
    and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,
¹⁴ then you will find your joy in the Lord,
    and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land
    and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.」
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

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    「禁食」的目的，是要讓我們在飢餓中更加知道：「人活著，不是單靠食物，乃是靠上帝口裡所出的一切話」。正如主耶穌禁食四十晝夜之後，魔鬼試探祂，要祂將石頭變成食物時，對魔鬼回答。

    而先知以賽亞在此說到「禁食」之外，更要行公義、好憐憫，特別是對弱勢者的慈惠的之行，更是上帝子民更應該關注的事情。上帝應許這樣行的人：「你心若向飢餓的人發憐憫，使困苦的人得滿足，你的光就必在黑暗中發現；你的幽暗必變如正午。耶和華也必時常引導你，在乾旱之地使你心滿意足，骨頭強壯。你必像澆灌的園子，又像水流不絕的泉源。」

    可見上帝看重得就是，以祂形像造的人，要像祂一樣充滿慷慨與分享的心，使缺乏與無助的人得著幫補，並且得以存活下來，使彼此可以一同來感念上帝的恩典，分享上帝的恩慈。

                                                                                                           

以賽亞書57:14-21

57:14 耶和華要說：你們修築修築，預備道路，將絆腳石從我百姓的路中除掉。
57:15 因為那至高至上、永遠長存（原文是住在永遠）名為聖者的如此說：我住在至高至聖的所在，也與心靈痛悔謙卑的人同居；要使謙卑人的靈甦醒，也使痛悔人的心甦醒。
57:16 我必不永遠相爭，也不長久發怒，恐怕我所造的人與靈性都必發昏。
57:17 因他貪婪的罪孽，我就發怒擊打他；我向他掩面發怒，他卻仍然隨心背道。
57:18 我看見他所行的道，也要醫治他；又要引導他，使他和那一同傷心的人再得安慰。
57:19 我造就嘴唇的果子；願平安康泰歸與遠處的人，也歸與近處的人；並且我要醫治他。這是耶和華說的。
57:20 惟獨惡人，好像翻騰的海，不得平靜；其中的水常湧出污穢和淤泥來。
57:21 我的上帝說：惡人必不得平安！

¹⁴ And it will be said:

「Build up, build up, prepare the road!
    Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.」
¹⁵ For this is what the high and exalted One says—
    he who lives forever, whose name is holy:
「I live in a high and holy place,
    but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.
¹⁶ I will not accuse them forever,
    nor will I always be angry,
for then they would faint away because of me—
    the very people I have created.
¹⁷ I was enraged by their sinful greed;
    I punished them, and hid my face in anger,
    yet they kept on in their willful ways.
¹⁸ I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;
    I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel's mourners,
¹⁹     creating praise on their lips.
Peace, peace, to those far and near,」
    says the Lord. 「And I will heal them.」
²⁰ But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
    which cannot rest,
    whose waves cast up mire and mud.
²¹ 「There is no peace,」 says my God, 「for the wicked.」

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    人受造是要倚靠上帝，若是離開這個法則，想要擺脫上帝，或是自以為夠成熟或堅強道不需要上帝的程度，或是有能力為上帝做甚麼，這都是自以為義，以以為有能力，後果就是失去上帝的同在，沒有真正的平安！正如先知所說：「因他貪婪的罪孽，我就發怒擊打他；我向他掩面發怒，他卻仍然隨心背道。」「惟獨惡人，好像翻騰的海，不得平靜；其中的水常湧出污穢和淤泥來。」

    他們自以為努力有成果與成就，殊不知他們只不過是「湧出污穢和淤泥來」，一點益處都沒有，反而造成更大的問題和反效果。以至於服事的果效是一時的，無法持續進行下去！因為，那不是上帝做工在其上，而是人憑著虛榮所成就的泡沫，一下就滅絕了！

    我們能做得就是悔改，歸向上帝承認自己的有線與無能及有罪！讓上帝親自來安慰和動工在我們的身上。因為，惟有上帝能，祂的能要藉由我們的不能彰顯出來！

以賽亞書57:1-13

57:1 義人死亡，無人放在心上；虔誠人被收去，無人思念。這義人被收去是免了將來的禍患；
57:2 他們得享（原文是進入）平安。素行正直的，各人在墳裡（原文是床上）安歇。
57:3 你們這些巫婆的兒子，姦夫和妓女的種子，都要前來！
57:4 你們向誰戲笑？向誰張口吐舌呢？你們豈不是悖逆的兒女，虛謊的種類呢？
57:5 你們在橡樹中間，在各青翠樹下慾火攻心；在山谷間，在石穴下殺了兒女；
57:6 在谷中光滑石頭裡有你的分。這些就是你所得的分；你也向他澆了奠祭，獻了供物，因這事我豈能容忍嗎？
57:7 你在高而又高的山上安設床榻，也上那裡去獻祭。
57:8 你在門後，在門框後，立起你的紀念；向外人赤露，又上去擴張床榻，與他們立約；你在那裡看見他們的床就甚喜愛。
57:9 你把油帶到王那裡，又多加香料，打發使者往遠方去，自卑自賤直到陰間，
57:10 你因路遠疲倦，卻不說這是枉然；你以為有復興之力，所以不覺疲憊。
57:11 你怕誰？因誰恐懼？竟說謊，不記念我，又不將這事放在心上。我不是許久閉口不言，你仍不怕我嗎？
57:12 我要指明你的公義；至於你所行的都必與你無益。
57:13 你哀求的時候，讓你所聚集的拯救你吧！風要把他們颳散，一口氣要把他們都吹去。但那投靠我的必得地土，必承受我的聖山為業。

The righteous perish,
    and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
    and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
    to be spared from evil.
² Those who walk uprightly
    enter into peace;
    they find rest as they lie in death.

³ 「But you—come here, you children of a sorceress,
    you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
⁴ Who are you mocking?
    At whom do you sneer
    and stick out your tongue?
Are you not a brood of rebels,
    the offspring of liars?
⁵ You burn with lust among the oaks
    and under every spreading tree;
you sacrifice your children in the ravines
    and under the overhanging crags.
⁶ The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;
    indeed, they are your lot.
Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings
    and offered grain offerings.
    In view of all this, should I relent?
⁷ You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;
    there you went up to offer your sacrifices.
⁸ Behind your doors and your doorposts
    you have put your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,
    you climbed into it and opened it wide;
you made a pact with those whose beds you love,
    and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.
⁹ You went to Molek^[a] with olive oil
    and increased your perfumes.
You sent your ambassadors^[b] far away;
    you descended to the very realm of the dead!
¹⁰ You wearied yourself by such going about,
    but you would not say, 『It is hopeless.』
You found renewal of your strength,
    and so you did not faint.

¹¹ 「Whom have you so dreaded and feared
    that you have not been true to me,
and have neither remembered me
    nor taken this to heart?
Is it not because I have long been silent
    that you do not fear me?
¹² I will expose your righteousness and your works,
    and they will not benefit you.
¹³ When you cry out for help,
    let your collection of idols save you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
    a mere breath will blow them away.
But whoever takes refuge in me
    will inherit the land
    and possess my holy mountain.」

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    上帝對於投靠祂的人的應許是：必得地土，必承受上帝的聖山為業。的確，上帝要將祂的國賜給凡信靠耶穌基督為救主的人，而耶穌基督的在來就是上帝的國實現的時候，也因此基督徒要歡喜快樂的預備主耶穌的再來。

    先知以賽亞書也說到以色列人失去土地的原因，就是雖從外邦人在邱壇敬拜偶像，就像當地的迦南人敬拜巴利或亞斯他錄一般，他們的儀式中充滿淫行，用男女的交合來當作敬拜神明，還焚燒小孩來獻祭，這一切都是不蒙上帝喜悅的行為，是上帝的子民所不該有的！

    今日的教會中，也是混雜著許多不合乎聖經教導的觀念，以為是敬畏上帝，其實是遠離上帝高抬自己的舉動。就像許多人認為，可以拿社會上的成就來榮耀上帝！這聽起來似乎是對的，但是實際上是大錯特錯！因為上帝不需要人的作為來榮耀祂，反倒是人須要讓上帝的榮耀來遮蓋我們，使人透過我們看見上帝的榮美！

    也因此我們是倚靠耶穌基督的恩典來行事為人，不是我們行事為人的良善來顯明上帝的榮光。因為我們本是罪人，乏善可陳，我們若靠我們的力量所行的，只有張顯我們的惡！所以，我們當求聖靈將基督的救贖大功實現在我們身上，使主的榮美藉我們的信靠而散發出來！

以賽亞書56章

    以賽亞書56:1-12    ,