「惟有我，是安慰你們的……」（12節）

經文
以賽亞書五十一1-16

1你們這追求公義、尋求耶和華的，當聽我言！你們要追想被鑿而出的磐石，被挖而出的巖穴。

2要追想你們的祖宗亞伯拉罕和生養你們的撒拉；因為亞伯拉罕獨自一人的時候，我選召他，賜福與他，使他人數增多。

3耶和華已經安慰錫安和錫安一切的荒場，使曠野像伊甸，使沙漠像耶和華的園囿；在其中必有歡喜、快樂、感謝，和歌唱的聲音。

4我的百姓啊，要向我留心；我的國民哪，要向我側耳；因為訓誨必從我而出；我必堅定我的公理為萬民之光。

5我的公義臨近；我的救恩發出。我的膀臂要審判萬民；海島都要等候我，倚賴我的膀臂。

6你們要向天舉目，觀看下地；因為天必像煙雲消散，地必如衣服漸漸舊了；其上的居民也要如此死亡（如此死亡：或譯像蠓蟲死亡）。惟有我的救恩永遠長存；我的公義也不廢掉。

7知道公義、將我訓誨存在心中的民，要聽我言！不要怕人的辱罵，也不要因人的毀謗驚惶。

8因為蛀蟲必咬他們，好像咬衣服；蟲子必咬他們，如同咬羊絨。惟有我的公義永遠長存，我的救恩直到萬代。

9耶和華的膀臂啊，興起！興起！以能力為衣穿上，像古時的年日、上古的世代興起一樣。從前砍碎拉哈伯、刺透大魚的，不是你嗎？

10使海與深淵的水乾涸、使海的深處變為贖民經過之路的，不是你嗎？

11耶和華救贖的民必歸回，歌唱來到錫安；永樂必歸到他們的頭上。他們必得著歡喜快樂；憂愁歎息盡都逃避。

12惟有我，是安慰你們的。你是誰，竟怕那必死的人？怕那要變如草的世人？

13卻忘記鋪張諸天、立定地基、創造你的耶和華？又因欺壓者圖謀毀滅要發的暴怒，整天害怕，其實那欺壓者的暴怒在哪裡呢？

14被擄去的快得釋放，必不死而下坑；他的食物也不致缺乏。

15我是耶和華─你的神─攪動大海，使海中的波浪匉訇─萬軍之耶和華是我的名。

16我將我的話傳給你，用我的手影遮蔽你，為要栽定諸天，立定地基，又對錫安說：你是我的百姓。

"I, even I, am he who comforts you..." (v.12)

Bible reading:
Isaiah 51:1-16

1 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;

2 look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many.

3 The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

4 "Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.

5 My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.

7 "Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults.

8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment; the worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through all generations."

9 Awake, awake, arm of the Lord, clothe yourself with strength! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?

10 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?

11 Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

12 "I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass,

13 that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?

14 The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.

15 For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord Almighty is his name.

16 I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand—I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, 'You are my people.'"