Isaías 58

1 ¡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,

Cry out! Cease not! Exalt your voice like a trumpet, and announce to my people their wicked acts, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

2 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.

For they also seek me, from day to day, and they are willing to know my ways, like a nation which has done justice and has not abandoned the judgment of their God. They petition me for judgments of justice. They are willing to draw near to God.

3 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.

“Why have we fasted, and you have not taken notice? Why have we humbled our souls, and you have not acknowledged it?” Behold, in the day of your fasting, your own will is found, and you petition for payment from all your debtors.

4 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.

Behold, you fast with strife and contention, and you strike with the fist impiously. Do not choose to fast as you have done even to this day. Then your outcry will be heard on high.

5 ¿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?

Is this a fast such as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day, to contort his head in a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Should you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?

6 ¿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?

Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.

7 ¿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?

Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh.

8 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.

Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will improve quickly, and your justice will go before your face, and the glory of the Lord will gather you up.

9 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,

Then you will call, and the Lord will heed; you will cry out, and he will say, “Here I am,” if you take away the chains from your midst, and cease to point your finger and to speak what is not beneficial.

10 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.

When you pour out your life for the hungry, and you satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise up in darkness, and your darkness will be like the midday.

11 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.

And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail.

12 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.

And places that have been desolate for ages will be built up by you. You will raise a foundation for generation after generation. And you will be called the repairer of hedges, who turns the roadways into quiet places.

13 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,

If you restrain your foot on the Sabbath, from doing your own will on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath delightful, and the Holy of the Lord glorious, and if you glorify him, while you do not act according to your own ways, and your own will is not found, not even to speak a word,

14 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.

then you will find delight in the Lord, and I will take you up, above the heights of the earth, and I will nourish you with the inheritance of Jacob, your father. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.