1 Roep uit die keel, hou nie terug nie, verhef jou stem soos 'n basuin! En verkondig aan my volk hulle oortreding en aan die huis van Jakob hulle sondes.

2 Wel soek hulle My dag vir dag en het 'n behae in die kennis van my weë! Soos 'n nasie wat geregtigheid doen en die reg van sy God nie verlaat nie, vra hulle My na die regverdige verordeninge; hulle het 'n behae in die toenadering tot God.

3 Waarom vas ons, en U sien dit nie? Waarom kwel ons ons siel, en U weet dit nie? -- Kyk, op die dag as julle vas, soek julle geleentheid om sake te doen, en julle jaag al jul arbeiders aan.

4 Kyk, om te twis en te kyf, vas julle, en om te slaan met misdadige vuis; julle vas nie nou om julle stem in die hoogte te laat hoor nie.

5 Is d¡t die vas wat Ek verkies, die dag as die mens sy siel gaan kwel: dat hy sy hoof buig soos 'n biesie en sak en as uitsprei om sy bed te wees? Noem jy dit vas en 'n dag wat die HERE welgevallig is?

6 Is d¡t nie die vas wat Ek verkies nie: dat julle losmaak die bande van goddeloosheid, dat julle afhaal die stroppe van die juk en vry laat weggaan die verdruktes en elke juk stukkend breek?

7 Is dit nie dat jy jou brood breek vir hom wat honger het, en ellendiges, swerwelinge in die huis inbring nie? As jy iemand sien wat naak is, dat jy hom klee, en jou vir jou eie vlees nie verberg nie?

8 Dan sal jou lig deurbreek soos die dageraad en jou genesing skielik uitspruit; en jou geregtigheid sal voor jou uit gaan, die heerlikheid van die HERE jou agterhoede wees.

9 Dan sal jy roep, en die HERE sal antwoord; jy sal skreeu om hulp, en Hy sal sê: Hier is Ek! As jy van jou verwyder die verdrukking, die uitsteek van die vinger en die leuenagtige woord,

10 en jou siel laat uitgaan na die hongerige, en die neergeboë siel versadig; dan sal jou lig opgaan in die duisternis en jou donkerheid wees soos die middag.

11 En die HERE sal jou gedurigdeur lei en jou siel versadig in dor plekke en jou gebeente sterk maak; en jy sal wees soos 'n tuin wat goed besproei is en soos 'n fontein van waters waarvan die water nooit teleurstel nie.

12 En die wat uit jou voortkom, sal die ou puinhope bou; die fondamente van vorige geslagte sal jy oprig, en jy sal genoem word: Herbouer van gebreekte mure, hersteller van paaie, om bewoonbaar te maak.

13 As jy jou voet terughou van die sabbat -- om nie jou sake op my heilige dag te doen nie, en as jy die sabbat 'n verlustiging noem en die heilige dag van die HERE hooghou; en as jy dit eer deur nie jou gewone gang te gaan nie, nie geleentheid vir jou sake soek of ydele taal spreek nie;

14 dan sal jy jou verlustig in die HERE, en Ek sal jou laat ry oor die hoogtes van die aarde en jou laat geniet die erfdeel van jou vader Jakob; want die mond van die HERE het dit gespreek.

1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

8 Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

14 Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.