赛44:1 “但现在，我的仆人雅各，我所拣选的以色列啊！你要听。
赛44:1 And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:
赛44:2 那创造你，从母胎里就塑造了你，又要帮助你的耶和华这样说：我的仆人雅各啊！我所拣选的耶书仑啊！你不要惧怕。
赛44:2 The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother's body, the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself.
赛44:3 因为我要把水浇灌干渴之处，把河水浇灌干旱之地；我必把我的灵浇灌你的后裔，把我的福降给你的子孙。
赛44:3 For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.
赛44:4 他们要像从草中生长起来，又像溪水旁的柳树。
赛44:4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.
赛44:5 这个必说：‘我是属耶和华的’；那个也必以雅各的名称呼自己；另一个必亲手写上‘我是属耶和华的’，并且要以以色列的名字替自己命名。”
赛44:5 One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.
赛44:6 耶和华以色列的王、以色列的救赎主、万军之耶和华这样说：“我是首先的，我是末后的；除我以外，再没有真神。
赛44:6 The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.
赛44:7 谁像我呢？让他宣告，让他述说，又在我面前陈明吧！自从我设立古时的子民，未来的事和将要发生的事，让他们把它们述说出来吧！
赛44:7 If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.
赛44:8 你们不要惊惶，也不要惧怕。我不是老早就说了给你们听，告诉了你们吗？你们就是我的见证人。除我以外，还有真神吗？没有别的盘石；我一个也不知道。”
赛44:8 Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
赛44:9 制造偶像的人，尽都是虚空的，他们所喜爱的，都没有益处。他们的见证人，一无所见，一无所知，以致他们蒙羞。
赛44:9 Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.
赛44:10 谁制造神像，或铸造偶像，不想得到益处呢？
赛44:10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
赛44:11 看哪！所有与它同伙的都必蒙羞；工匠也不过是人罢了。让他们都集合起来，都站立起来；让他们都惧怕，都一同蒙羞。
赛44:11 Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.
赛44:12 铁匠先用工具在铁上雕刻，然后在火炭中加工，再用锤子把铁锤成形状，用他有力的膀臂锤成。他若饥饿，就没有力量；他若不喝水，就疲乏。
赛44:12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
赛44:13 木匠拉线，用笔画出轮廓，用刨子刨平，用圆规画出模样，做成人的形状，有人一般的美丽，好住在庙里。
赛44:13 The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.
赛44:14 他为自己砍伐香柏树，或选取榆树和橡树，让它在树林中长起来；他栽种松树，让雨水使它长大。
赛44:14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
赛44:15 人可以用这树作燃料，可以拿来生火取暖，又可以烧着烤饼；人竟然用它做神像敬拜，他做了雕刻的偶像，又向它叩拜。
赛44:15 Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.
赛44:16 他把木头的一半放在火里燃烧；在上面烤肉；吃了烤肉，并且吃饱了，就自己烤火取暖，说：“哈哈！我暖和了，我看见火了。”
赛44:16 With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:
赛44:17 他用剩下来的一半做了一个神像，就是他雕刻的偶像，他向它俯伏，向它敬拜，又向它祷告，说：“求你救我，因为你是我的神。”
赛44:17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.
赛44:18 他们并不知道，也不明白；因为耶和华闭住他们的眼睛，使他们不能看见，塞住他们的心，使他们不能明白。
赛44:18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.
赛44:19 没有人细心思想，也没有人有知识有聪明说：“我把木头的一半放在火里燃烧，我也在炭火上烘过饼，烤过肉吃，剩下的，我却用来做了一个可憎之物，我要向木头叩拜吗？”
赛44:19 And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
赛44:20 他所追求的只是灰尘，被迷惑了的心使他偏离正道了；他不能救自己，也不会说：“在我的右手中不是有个假神吗？”
赛44:20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
赛44:21 雅各和以色列啊！要记念这些话，因为你是我的仆人。我造了你，是要你作我的仆人；以色列啊！你必不会被我忘记。
赛44:21 Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.
赛44:22 我涂抹了你的过犯，像密云消散；我涂抹了你的罪恶，如薄云灭没，你当归向我，因为我救赎了你。
赛44:22 I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.
赛44:23 诸天啊！你们要欢呼，因为耶和华作成了这事。地的深处啊！你们要吶喊。群山啊！你们要发声欢呼。树林和其中所有的树啊！你们都当这样。因为耶和华救赎了雅各，他要借着以色列使自己得荣耀。
赛44:23 Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.
赛44:24 你的救赎主，就是那在母胎中就造了你的耶和华这样说：“我耶和华是创造万物的，我是独自展开诸天，铺张大地的。
赛44:24 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?
赛44:25 我使说假话者的兆头失效，使占卜者都变成愚昧人；我使有智慧的人后退，使他们的知识变为愚拙。
赛44:25 Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
赛44:26 我使我仆人的话实现，使我使者的谋算成就。我对耶路撒冷说：‘你必有人居住。’对犹大的城镇说：‘你们要再被建造起来，至于其中的废墟，我必重建它们。’
赛44:26 Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:
赛44:27 我对深渊说：‘你干了吧，我必使你的江河干涸！’
赛44:27 Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
赛44:28 我对古列说：‘我的牧人；他必成就我所喜悦的一切。’他要对耶路撒冷说：‘你必被重建起来！’他必对圣殿说：‘你的根基要奠定！’”
赛44:28 Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.