< Isaiah 58 >
1 “Call with the throat, do not restrain, lift up your voice as a horn, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;
你要大聲喊叫,不可止息; 揚起聲來,好像吹角。 向我百姓說明他們的過犯; 向雅各家說明他們的罪惡。
2 They seek Me day by day, And they desire the knowledge of My ways, As a nation that has done righteousness, And has not forsaken the judgment of its God, They ask of Me judgments of righteousness, They desire the drawing near of God:
他們天天尋求我, 樂意明白我的道, 好像行義的國民, 不離棄他們上帝的典章, 向我求問公義的判語, 喜悅親近上帝。
3 Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and You do not know. Behold, you find pleasure in the day of your fast, And exact all your laborers.
他們說:我們禁食,你為何不看見呢? 我們刻苦己心,你為何不理會呢? 看哪,你們禁食的日子仍求利益, 勒逼人為你們做苦工。
4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness, You do not fast as [this] day, To sound your voice in the high place.
你們禁食,卻互相爭競, 以凶惡的拳頭打人。 你們今日禁食, 不得使你們的聲音聽聞於上。
5 Is this like the fast that I choose? The day of a man’s afflicting his soul? To bow his head as a reed, And spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, And a desirable day—to YHWH?
這樣禁食豈是我所揀選、 使人刻苦己心的日子嗎? 豈是叫人垂頭像葦子, 用麻布和爐灰鋪在他以下嗎? 你這可稱為禁食、為耶和華所悅納的日子嗎?
6 Is this not the fast that I chose—To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And draw off every yoke?
我所揀選的禁食不是要鬆開凶惡的繩, 解下軛上的索, 使被欺壓的得自由, 折斷一切的軛嗎?
7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, And bring home the wandering poor, That you see the naked and cover him, And do not hide yourself from your own flesh?
不是要把你的餅分給飢餓的人, 將飄流的窮人接到你家中, 見赤身的給他衣服遮體, 顧恤自己的骨肉而不掩藏嗎?
8 Then your light breaks forth as the dawn, And your health springs up in haste, Your righteousness has gone before you, The glory of YHWH gathers you.
這樣,你的光就必發現如早晨的光; 你所得的醫治要速速發明。 你的公義必在你前面行; 耶和華的榮光必作你的後盾。
9 Then you call, and YHWH answers, You cry, and He says, Behold Me. If you turn aside the yoke from your midst, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of vanity,
那時你求告,耶和華必應允; 你呼求,他必說:我在這裏。 你若從你中間除掉重軛 和指摘人的指頭,並發惡言的事,
10 And bring out your soul to the hungry, And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light has risen in the darkness, And your thick darkness [is] as noon.
你心若向飢餓的人發憐憫, 使困苦的人得滿足, 你的光就必在黑暗中發現; 你的幽暗必變如正午。
11 And YHWH continually leads you, And has satisfied your soul in drought, And He arms your bones, And you have been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters do not lie.
耶和華也必時常引導你, 在乾旱之地使你心滿意足, 骨頭強壯。 你必像澆灌的園子, 又像水流不絕的泉源。
12 And they have built the ancient ruins from you, You raise up the foundations of many generations, And one calls you, Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to rest in.
那些出於你的人必修造久已荒廢之處; 你要建立拆毀累代的根基。 你必稱為補破口的, 和重修路徑與人居住的。
13 If you turn your foot from the Sabbath, [From] doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And have cried to the Sabbath, A delight, To the holy of YHWH, Honored, And have honored it, without doing your own ways, Without finding your own pleasure, And speaking a word.
你若在安息日掉轉你的腳步, 在我聖日不以操作為喜樂, 稱安息日為可喜樂的, 稱耶和華的聖日為可尊重的; 而且尊敬這日, 不辦自己的私事, 不隨自己的私意, 不說自己的私話,
14 Then you delight yourself on YHWH, And I have caused you to ride on high places of earth, And have caused you to eat the inheritance of your father Jacob, For the mouth of YHWH has spoken!”
你就以耶和華為樂。 耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處, 又以你祖雅各的產業養育你。 這是耶和華親口說的。