< Isaiah 58 >
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
你要大声喊叫,不可止息; 扬起声来,好像吹角。 向我百姓说明他们的过犯; 向雅各家说明他们的罪恶。
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 the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
他们天天寻求我, 乐意明白我的道, 好像行义的国民, 不离弃他们 神的典章, 向我求问公义的判语, 喜悦亲近 神。
3 Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
他们说:我们禁食,你为何不看见呢? 我们刻苦己心,你为何不理会呢? 看哪,你们禁食的日子仍求利益, 勒逼人为你们做苦工。
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
你们禁食,却互相争竞, 以凶恶的拳头打人。 你们今日禁食, 不得使你们的声音听闻于上。
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
这样禁食岂是我所拣选、 使人刻苦己心的日子吗? 岂是叫人垂头像苇子, 用麻布和炉灰铺在他以下吗? 你这可称为禁食、为耶和华所悦纳的日子吗?
6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
我所拣选的禁食不是要松开凶恶的绳, 解下轭上的索, 使被欺压的得自由, 折断一切的轭吗?
7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
不是要把你的饼分给饥饿的人, 将飘流的穷人接到你家中, 见赤身的给他衣服遮体, 顾恤自己的骨肉而不掩藏吗?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
这样,你的光就必发现如早晨的光; 你所得的医治要速速发明。 你的公义必在你前面行; 耶和华的荣光必作你的后盾。
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
那时你求告,耶和华必应允; 你呼求,他必说:我在这里。 你若从你中间除掉重轭 和指摘人的指头,并发恶言的事,
10 And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:
你心若向饥饿的人发怜悯, 使困苦的人得满足, 你的光就必在黑暗中发现; 你的幽暗必变如正午。
11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
耶和华也必时常引导你, 在干旱之地使你心满意足, 骨头强壮。 你必像浇灌的园子, 又像水流不绝的泉源。
12 And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
那些出于你的人必修造久已荒废之处; 你要建立拆毁累代的根基。 你必称为补破口的, 和重修路径与人居住的。
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:
你若在安息日掉转你的脚步, 在我圣日不以操作为喜乐, 称安息日为可喜乐的, 称耶和华的圣日为可尊重的; 而且尊敬这日, 不办自己的私事, 不随自己的私意, 不说自己的私话,
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
你就以耶和华为乐。 耶和华要使你乘驾地的高处, 又以你祖雅各的产业养育你。 这是耶和华亲口说的。