1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.58.1 aloud: Heb. with the throat 2Yet 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.
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.58.3 labours: or, things wherewith ye grieve others: Heb. griefs 4Behold, 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.58.4 ye shall…: or, ye fast not as this day 5Is 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?58.5 a day…: or, to afflict his soul for a day? 6Is 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?58.6 the heavy…: Heb. the bundles of the yoke58.6 oppressed: Heb. broken 7Is 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?58.7 cast…: or, afflicted
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.58.8 be…: Heb. gather thee up 9Then 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; 10And 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: 11And 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.58.11 drought: Heb. droughts58.11 fail: Heb. lie, or, deceive 12And 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.
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: 14Then 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.
Mfungo Wa Kweli
158:1 Isa 24:20; 40:6; 48:8; Eze 3:17; Isa 57:12“Piga kelele, usizuie.
Paza sauti yako kama tarumbeta.
Watangazieni watu wangu uasi wao,
na kwa nyumba ya Yakobo dhambi zao.
258:2 Isa 29:13; Yak 4:8Kwa maana kila siku hunitafuta,
wanaonekana kutaka kujua njia zangu,
kana kwamba walikuwa taifa linalotenda lililo sawa,
na ambalo halijaziacha amri za Mungu wake.
Hutaka kwangu maamuzi ya haki,
nao hutamani Mungu awakaribie.
358:3 Law 16:29; Mal 3:14; Zek 7:5-6; Kut 10:3; 2Nya 6:37; Yer 44:10; Isa 22:13Wao husema, ‘Mbona tumefunga, nawe hujaona?
Mbona tumejinyenyekeza, nawe huangalii?’
“Lakini katika siku ya kufunga kwenu, mnafanya mnavyotaka
na kuwadhulumu wafanyakazi wenu wote.
458:4 Mal 2:16; Mao 3:44; Mik 3:4; 1Fal 21:9-13; Isa 59:6; Eze 7:11; 8:18; 1Sam 8:18Kufunga kwenu huishia kwenye magomvi na mapigano,
na kupigana ninyi kwa ninyi kwa ngumi za uovu.
Hamwezi kufunga kama mnavyofanya leo
na kutazamia sauti zenu kusikiwa huko juu.
558:5 Zek 7:5; 1Fal 21:27; Mt 6:16; Ay 2:8; Isa 36:6Je, hii ndiyo aina ya mfungo niliouchagua,
siku moja tu ya mtu kujinyenyekeza?
Je, ni kwa kuinamisha kichwa chini kama tete,
na kwa kujilaza juu ya nguo ya gunia na majivu?
Je, huo ndio mnaouita mfungo,
siku iliyokubalika kwa Bwana?
658:6 Neh 5:10-11; Kum 14:29; Lk 4:19; Yoe 2:12-13; Yer 34:9; Amo 4:1; Isa 9:4“Je, hii si ndiyo aina ya mfungo niliyoichagua:
kufungua minyororo ya udhalimu,
na kufungua kamba za nira,
kuwaweka huru walioonewa,
na kuvunja kila nira?
758:7 Ay 22:7; Dan 4:27; Ebr 13:12; Ay 31:19-20; Mwa 29:14; Mt 25:36; Eze 18:16Je, sio kushirikiana chakula chako na wenye njaa
na kuwapatia maskini wasiokuwa na makao hifadhi,
unapomwona aliye uchi, umvike,
wala si kumkimbia mtu wa nyama na damu yako mwenyewe?
858:8 Isa 9:2; 30:26; Kut 14:19; Ay 11:17; Isa 26:2Ndipo nuru yako itajitokeza kama mapambazuko
na uponyaji wako utatokea upesi;
ndipo haki yako itakapokutangulia mbele yako,
na utukufu wa Bwana utakuwa mlinzi nyuma yako.
958:9 Mit 6:13; Za 50:12; 12:2; Isa 59:13; Ay 8:6; Dan 9:20; Zek 10:6Ndipo utaita, naye Bwana atajibu,
utalia kuomba msaada,
naye atasema: Mimi hapa.
“Kama ukiiondoa nira ya udhalimu,
na kunyoosha kidole na kuzungumza maovu,
1058:10 Kum 15:7-8; Ay 11:17; Isa 42:16nanyi kama mkimkunjulia mtu mwenye njaa nafsi zenu
na kutosheleza mahitaji ya walioonewa,
ndipo nuru yenu itakapongʼaa gizani,
nao usiku wenu utakuwa kama adhuhuri.
1158:11 Za 104:28; Wim 4:15; Yn 4:14; Za 48:14; Isa 42:16; 48:7; Za 68:1; 72:6Bwana atakuongoza siku zote,
atayatosheleza mahitaji yako katika nchi kame,
naye ataitia nguvu mifupa yako.
Utakuwa kama bustani iliyonyweshwa vizuri,
kama chemchemi ambayo maji yake hayakauki kamwe.
12Watu wako watajenga tena magofu ya zamani
na kuinua misingi ya kale;
utaitwa Mwenye Kukarabati Kuta Zilizobomoka,
Mwenye Kurejeza Barabara za Makao.
1358:13 Law 19:20; Kut 20:8; Za 37:4; Isa 56:2“Kama ukitunza miguu yako isivunje Sabato,
na kutokufanya kama vile upendavyo katika siku yangu takatifu,
kama ukiita Sabato siku ya furaha
na siku takatifu ya Bwana ya kuheshimiwa,
kama utaiheshimu kwa kutoenenda
katika njia zako mwenyewe,
na kutokufanya yakupendezayo
au kusema maneno ya upuzi,
1458:14 Ay 22:26; Kum 32:13; Isa 1:20; Za 105:10-11ndipo utakapojipatia furaha yako katika Bwana,
nami nitakufanya upande juu ya miinuko ya nchi
na kusherehekea urithi wa Yakobo baba yako.”
Kinywa cha Bwana kimenena haya.
