< 以賽亞書 58 >

1 你大聲呼喊,不要停止,提高你的喉嚨,有如號筒,向我的百姓宣佈他們的過犯,向雅各伯家指明他們的罪孽。
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.
2 他們固然天天尋找我,喜歡認識我的道路,好似一個行義而沒有背棄天主法令的民族,向我要求正義的措施,祈望天主與之接近:「
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.
3 為什麼我們守齋而你看不見,我們克苦而你不理會呢﹖」看哪!你們在守齋日仍然苦心經營,勒索你們所有的工人。
“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.
4 看哪!你們一面守齋,一面爭吵,打架,以惡拳打人;你們不必再如今天一樣守齋了,免得你們的嘈雜在高處可以聽到。
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.
5 難道這就是我所中意的齊戒嗎﹖難道這就是人們克己的日子嗎﹖難道低頭如同蘆葦,以苦衣和灰塵舖床,你就稱為齋戒,稱為上主悅納的日子嗎﹖
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?
6 我所中意的齊戒,豈不是要人解除不義的鎖鏈,廢除軛上的繩索,使受壓迫者獲得自由,折斷所有的軛嗎﹖
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.
7 豈不是要人將食糧分給飢餓的人,將無地容身的貧窮人領到自己的屋裏,見到赤身露體的人給他衣穿,不要避開你的骨肉嗎﹖
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.
8 若這樣,你的光明將要射出,有如黎明,你的傷口將會迅速地復原;你的救援要走在你前面,上主的光 榮要作你的後盾。
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.
9 那時,你如呼喊,上主必要俯允;你若哀求,他必答說:「我在這裏!」你若由你中間消除欺壓、指手畫腳的行為和虛偽的言談,
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.
10 你若把你的食糧施捨給飢餓的人,滿足貧窮者的心靈;那麼,你的光明要在黑暗中升起,你的幽暗將如中午。
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.
11 上主必要時常引領你,在乾枯之地,使你心滿意足,並使你的骨頭堅強有力;你將成為一座灌溉的樂園,一個總不涸竭的水泉。
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.
12 你的後裔將重建往日的廢址,你要豎起那久遠的基礎,人要稱你為:「缺口的修補者,」「廢墟的興建者,」為叫人居住。
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.
13 假使你在安息日限止你的腳步,在我的聖日停止你的營業,稱安息日為喜樂,為上主可敬的聖日;假使你尊崇聖日,而不去旅行,不苦心經營或談論生意,
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,
14 那時你將喜樂於上主。我要使你駕臨地之高處,使你享受你祖先雅各伯的產業:這是上主親口說的。
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.

< 以賽亞書 58 >