Isaiah 58
1 Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
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。
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
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：「
3 Why have we fasted, they say, and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.
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。
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Ye do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
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。
5 Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?
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﹖
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
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﹖
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?
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﹖
8 Then thy light shall break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily. And thy righteousness shall go before thee. The glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearward.
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。
9 Then thou shall call, and Jehovah will answer, thou shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take the yoke away from the midst of thee, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly,
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，
10 and if thou draw out thy soul to a hungry man, and satisfy an afflicted soul, then thy light shall rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday.
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。
11 And Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones. And thou shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.
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。
12 And those who shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. Thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
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。
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable, and shall honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
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，
14 then thou shall delight thyself in Jehovah, and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken it.
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。
