Isaiah 58

1 “Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. 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 For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of 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, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

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 You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice 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 this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?

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 Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off 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 Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

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 your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

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 you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,

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 you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like 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 The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

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 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

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 you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle 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 you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.”

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。