< Isaiah 58 >
1 Crye aloude, spare not: lift vp thy voyce like a trumpet, and shewe my people their transgression, and to the house of Iaakob, their sinnes.
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 seeke me dayly, and will knowe my wayes, euen as a nation that did righteously, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God: they aske of me the ordinances of iustice: they wil drawe neere vnto God, saying,
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 Wherefore haue we fasted, and thou seest it not? we haue punished our selues, and thou regardest it not. Beholde, in the day of your fast you will seeke your will, and require all your dettes.
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 Beholde, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickednesse: ye shall not fast as ye doe to day, to make your voyce to be heard aboue.
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 it such a fast that I haue chosen, that a man should afflict his soule for a day, and to bowe downe his head, as a bull rush, and to lie downe in sackecloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fasting, or an acceptable day 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 Is not this the fasting, that I haue chosen, to loose the bandes of wickednes, to take off the heauie burdens, and to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye breake euery 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 deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that wander, vnto thine house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him, and hide not thy selfe from thine owne 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 shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thine health shall grow speedily: thy righteousnes shall goe before thee, and the glorie of the Lord shall embrace thee.
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 shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answere: thou shalt cry and hee shall say, Here I am: if thou take away from the mids of thee the yoke, the putting foorth of the finger, and wicked speaking:
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 If thou powre out thy soule to the hungrie, and refresh the troubled soule: then shall thy light spring out in the darkenes, and thy darkenes shalbe as the noone day.
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 the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfie thy soule in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watred garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters faile 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 they shalbe of thee, that shall builde the olde waste places: thou shalt rayse vp the foundations for many generations, and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach and the restorer of the pathes 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 turne away thy foote from the Sabbath, from doing thy will on mine holy day, and call the Sabbath a delite, to consecrate it, as glorious to the Lord, and shalt honour him, not doing thine owne wayes, nor seeking thine owne will, nor speaking a vaine word,
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 shalt thou delite in the Lord, and I wil cause thee to mount vpon the hie places of the earth, and feede thee with the heritage of Iaakob thy father: for the mouth of ye Lord hath 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。