< Isaiah 58 >

1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
¡Proclama a voz en cuello, no te detengas! ¡Alza tu voz como una trompeta! Denuncia su rebelión a mi pueblo, sus pecados a la casa de Jacob,
2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
quienes me buscan cada día y quieren saber mis caminos, como [si fuera] un pueblo que practicó justicia y que no abandonó la Ordenanza de su ʼElohim. Me piden decisiones justas. Se complacen en la cercanía de ʼElohim.
3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Dicen: ¿Para qué ayunamos, si no haces caso? ¿Humillamos nuestras almas, si no te das por entendido? Ciertamente en el día de ayuno buscan su propio deseo y oprimen a todos sus trabajadores.
4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
Ciertamente, ayunan para contiendas y debates, para herir con el puño inicuamente. No ayunen como hoy, si quieren que su voz sea escuchada en lo alto.
5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
¿Es éste el ayuno que Yo escogí, que el hombre aflija su alma de día, que incline la cabeza como un junco y se acueste sobre tela áspera y ceniza? ¿Llamarán a eso ayuno, es decir, día agradable a Yavé?
6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
¿El ayuno que Yo escogí no es más bien desatar las ligaduras de maldad, soltar las cargas de opresión, dejar ir libres a los quebrantados y que rompan todo yugo?
7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
¿No es que compartas tu pan con el hambriento y albergues en casa a los pobres errantes, que cuando veas al desnudo, lo cubras, y no te escondas de tu hermano?
8 Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
Entonces tu luz nacerá como el alba y tu recuperación brotará pronto. Tu justicia irá delante de ti y la gloria de Yavé será tu retaguardia.
9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;
Entonces invocarás, y Yavé te escuchará. Clamarás, y Él dirá: ¡Aquí estoy! Si quitas de en medio de ti el yugo, el dedo amenazador y el hablar perversidad,
10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
si tu alma provee para el hambriento y sacias al alma afligida, tu luz irradiará en la tenebrosidad y tu oscuridad será como el mediodía.
11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.
Yavé te pastoreará siempre. Tu alma se saciará en las sequías y dará vigor a tus huesos. Serás un huerto bien regado, como manantial de agua que nunca falta.
12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
Los tuyos reedificarán las ruinas antiguas. Levantarán los cimientos de muchas generaciones que estaban destruidos y serás llamado reparador de brechas, restaurador de calzadas para descansar.
13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;
Si detienes tu pie en el sábado para no hacer lo que te plazca en mi día santo, si llamas al sábado tu delicia, Santo, glorioso de Yavé, y lo honras, sin seguir en tus propios caminos, ni buscar tu placer, ni hablar tus propias palabras,
14 Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
entonces te deleitarás en Yavé. Te subiré sobre las alturas de la tierra y te alimentaré con la herencia de tu padre Jacob. Porque habló la boca de Yavé.

< Isaiah 58 >