< Isaiah 58 >

1 Cry out! Cease not! Exalt your voice like a trumpet, and announce to my people their wicked acts, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
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。
2 For they also seek me, from day to day, and they are willing to know my ways, like a nation which has done justice and has not abandoned the judgment of their God. They petition me for judgments of justice. They are willing to draw near to God.
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。
3 “Why have we fasted, and you have not taken notice? Why have we humbled our souls, and you have not acknowledged it?” Behold, in the day of your fasting, your own will is found, and you petition for payment from all your debtors.
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。
4 Behold, you fast with strife and contention, and you strike with the fist impiously. Do not choose to fast as you have done even to this day. Then your outcry will be heard on high.
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。
5 Is this a fast such as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day, to contort his head in a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Should you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?
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?
6 Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.
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?
7 Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh.
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, 顧恤自己的骨肉而不掩藏嗎?
8 Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will improve quickly, and your justice will go before your face, and the glory of the Lord will gather you up.
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。
9 Then you will call, and the Lord will heed; you will cry out, and he will say, “Here I am,” if you take away the chains from your midst, and cease to point your finger and to speak what is not beneficial.
那時你求告,耶和華必應允; 你呼求,他必說:我在這裏。 你若從你中間除掉重軛 和指摘人的指頭,並發惡言的事,
10 When you pour out your life for the hungry, and you satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise up in darkness, and your darkness will be like the midday.
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。
11 And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail.
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。
12 And places that have been desolate for ages will be built up by you. You will raise a foundation for generation after generation. And you will be called the repairer of hedges, who turns the roadways into quiet places.
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。
13 If you restrain your foot on the Sabbath, from doing your own will on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath delightful, and the Holy of the Lord glorious, and if you glorify him, while you do not act according to your own ways, and your own will is not found, not even to speak a word,
你若在安息日掉轉你的腳步, 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,
14 then you will find delight in the Lord, and I will take you up, above the heights of the earth, and I will nourish you with the inheritance of Jacob, your father. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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。

< Isaiah 58 >