我们何能知道怎样正确的生活呢？ What do we know about right living?

以赛亚书 59:9－15 Isaiah 59:9-15

因此， 公平离我们遠，公义追不上我们。我们指望光亮，却是黑暗，指望光明，却行幽暗。我们摸索墙壁，好像瞎子；我们摸索，如同无目之人。我们晌午绊脚，如在黄昏一样；我们在肥壮人中，像死人一般。我们咆哮如熊，哀鸣如鸽；指望公平，却是没有；指望救恩，却遠离我们。我们的過犯在你面前增多，罪恶作见证告我们；過犯与我们同在。至於我们的罪孽，我们都知道：就是悖逆、不认识耶和华，转去不跟从我们的神，说欺压和叛逆的话，心怀谎言，随即说出。并且公平转而退后，公义站在遠处；诚实在街上仆倒，正直也不得进入。诚实少见；离恶的人反成掠物。So there is no justice among us, and we know nothing about right living. We look for light but find only darkness. We look for bright skies but walk in gloom. We grope like the blind along a wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. Even at brightest noontime, we stumble as though it were dark. Among the living, we are like the dead. We growl like hungry bears; we moan like mournful doves. We look for justice, but it never comes. We look for rescue, but it is far away from us. For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are. We know we have rebelled and have denied the Lord. We have turned our backs on our God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies. Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.

我们何能知道怎样正确的生活呢？

公平離我们远远，公义站在远处。

诚实在街上仆倒，正直也不得进入。

我们悖逆、转去不跟从我们的神。

我们的過犯在你面前增多，罪恶作见证告我们。

我们不正直，欺压那寻求正义的人。

我们心怀谎言，随即行不义。

主阿！怜悯我们。

What do we know about right living?

We don’t have justice among us; it is nowhere to be found.

Truth stumbles in the streets and honest has been outlawed.

We have rebelled against God and turned our backs on Him.

Our sins are piled up before God to testify against us.

We have become unfair and oppressive of those who seek the truth. We carefully planned deceitful lies.

Oh God, have mercy on us, unrighteous people.