Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
59:12
እስመ፡ ብዙኅ፡ ኃጢአትነ፡ በቅድሜከ፡ ወጌጋይነ፡ ተቃወመነ።
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:
For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.
He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
59:18
ወተሞጥሐ፡ ሞጣሕተ፡ በቀል፡ ወፍዳ፡ በዘያኀሥሮሙ፡ ለፀር።
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。
According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate: wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay the islands their due.
So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.
59:20
ወይመጽእ፡ እምጽዮን፡ መድኅን፡ ወያአትት፡ ኃጢአተ፡ እምያዕቆብ።
必有一位救贖主來到錫安- 雅各族中轉離過犯的人那裏。 這是耶和華說的。
“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”