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Isaiah 1 1 Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. 你大声呼喊，不要停止，提高你的喉咙，有如号筒，向我的百姓宣布他们的过犯，向雅各伯家指明他们的罪孽。 2 2 They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the law of their God; They ask me to declare what is due them, pleased to gain access to God. 3 ＂Why do we fast, and you do not see it? afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?＂ Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers. ＂为什么我们守斋而你看不见，我们克苦而你不理会呢？＂看哪！你们在守斋日仍然苦心经营，勒索你们所有的工人。 4 Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting, striking with wicked claw. Would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high! 5 Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance: That a man bow his head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? 难道这就是我所中意的斋戒吗？难道这就是人们克己的日子吗？难道低头如同芦苇，以苦衣和灰尘铺床，你就称为斋戒，称为上主悦纳的日子吗？ 6 This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; 我所中意的斋戒，岂不是要人解除不义的锁链，废除轭上的绳索，使受压迫者获得自由，折断所有的轭吗？ 7 Sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own. 岂不是要人将食粮分给饥饿的人，将无地容身的贫穷人领到自己的屋里，见到赤身露体的人给他衣穿，不要避开你的骨肉吗？ 8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; Your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. 若这样，你的光明将要射出，有如黎明，你的伤口将会迅速地复原；你的救援要走在你前面，上主的光荣要作你的后盾。 9 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am! If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; 那时，你如呼喊，上主必要俯允；你若哀求，他必答说：＂我在这里！＂你若由你中间消除欺压、指手画脚的行为和虚伪的言谈， 10 If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday; 你若把你的食粮施舍给饥饿的人，满足贫穷者的心灵；那么，你的光明要在黑暗中升起，你的幽暗将如中午。 11 Then the LORD will guide you always and give you plenty even on the parched land. He will renew your strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails. 上主必要时常引领你，在干枯之地，使你心满意足，并使你的骨头坚强有力；你将成为一座灌溉的乐园，一个总不涸竭的水泉。 12 The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake, and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up; ＂Repairer of the breach,＂ they shall call you, ＂Restorer of ruined homesteads.＂ 你的后裔将重建往日的废址，你要竖起那久远的基础，人要称你为：＂缺口的修补者，＂＂废墟的兴建者，＂为叫人居住。 13 If you hold back your foot on the sabbath from following your own pursuits on my holy day; If you call the sabbath a delight, and the LORD'S holy day honorable; If you honor it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice— 假使你在安息日限止你的脚步，在我的圣日停止你的营业，称安息日为喜乐，为上主可敬的圣日；假使你尊崇圣日，而不去旅行，不苦心经营或谈论生意， 14 Then you shall delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken. 那时你将喜乐于上主。我要使你驾临地之高处，使你享受你祖先雅各伯的产业：这是上主亲口说的。 Footnotes(注解) 1 [1] This command is directed to the prophet. 2 [2-14] Merely external worship does not avail with God; it must be joined to internal sincerity. |
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