< 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 aloud, do not spare, Like a horn, lift high thy voice, —And declare To my people, their transgression, 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:「
Yet, me—day by day, do they seek, And in the knowledge of my ways, they delight, —Like a nation that had done righteousness, And the justice of their God, had not forsaken They ask of me the just regulations, In approaching God, they delight.
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。
Wherefore have we Fasted and thou hast not seen? Humbled our soul, and thou wouldst take no note? Lo! in the day of your fast, ye take pleasure, But all your toilers, ye drive on!
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。
Lo! for strife and contention, ye fast, And to smite with the fist of lawlessness, —Ye shall not fast as to-day, To cause to be heard on high your voice!
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﹖
Like this, shall the fast be that I choose, A day for the son of earth to humble his soul? Is it to bow down as a rush his head, And sackcloth and ashes, to spread out? Is it, this, thou wilt call a fast, Or a day of acceptance with Yahweh?
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, the fast that I must ever choose—To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness, To unloose the bands of the yoke, —and To let the crushed go free, and That every yoke, ye tear off?
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﹖
Is it not to break unto the hungry, thy bread, And the thrust-out oppressed, that thou bring into a home, —When thou seest one naked, that thou cover him, And from thine own flesh, shalt not hide thyself?
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, shall break forth, as the dawn, thy light, And thy new flesh shall speedily grow, —Then shall go before thee, thy righteousness, the glory of Yahweh shall bring up thy rear:
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, shalt thou Call, and Yahweh, will answer, Cry out, and he will say, Behold me! If thou remove, out of thy midst the yoke, The pointing of the finger, and The speaking of iniquity;
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。
And shalt let thine own soul go out to the hungry, And the soul of the oppressed, thou shalt satisfy, Then shall break forth in darkness thy light, And thy thick darkness, become as the splendour of noon;
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。
Then will Yahweh guide thee continually, And will satisfy, [even] in scorched regions thine own soul, Yea thy very bones, will he invigorate, —So shall thou become like a garden well—watered, And like a spring of water whose waters do not deceive;
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 they who come of thee shall build the wastes of age-past times, And as for the foundations of generation after generation, thou shalt rear them up, —So shalt thou be called—A Repairer of broken walls, A Restorer of paths leading home.
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 thou turn back. From the sabbath thy foot, From doing thine own pleasure on my holy day, —And shall call—The sabbath, An exquisite delight, The holy day of Yahweh, A day to be honoured, And so shall honour it rather—Than do thine own ways, Than take thine own pleasure or Than speak thine own 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, shalt thou rest thine own exquisite delight upon Yahweh, …And I will cause thee to ride over the high places of the land, —And will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken.

< 以賽亞書 58 >