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.

1 [Clama, ne cesses,quasi tuba exalta vocem tuam,et annuntia populo meo scelera eorum,et domui Jacob peccata eorum.2 Me etenim de die in diem qurunt,et scire vias meas volunt,quasi gens qu justitiam fecerit,et judicium Dei sui non dereliquerit.Rogant me judicia justiti ;appropinquare Deo volunt.3 Quare jejunavimus, et non aspexisti ;humiliavimus animas nostras, et nescisti ?Ecce in die jejunii vestri invenitur voluntas vestra,et omnes debitores vestros repetitis.4 Ecce ad lites et contentiones jejunatis,et percutitis pugno impie.Nolite jejunare sicut usque ad hanc diem,ut audiatur in excelso clamor vester.5 Numquid tale est jejunium quod elegi,per diem affligere hominem animam suam ?numquid contorquere quasi circulum caput suum,et saccum et cinerem sternere ?numquid istud vocabis jejunium,et diem acceptabilem Domino ?]6 [Nonne hoc est magis jejunium quod elegi ?Dissolve colligationes impietatis,solve fasciculos deprimentes,dimitte eos qui confracti sunt liberos,et omne opus dirumpe ;7 frange esurienti panem tuum,et egenos vagosque induc in domum tuam ;cum videris nudum, operi eum,et carnem tuam ne despexeris.8 Tunc erumpet quasi mane lumen tuum ;et sanitas tua citius orietur,et anteibit faciem tuam justitia tua,et gloria Domini colliget te.9 Tunc invocabis, et Dominus exaudiet ;clamabis, et dicet : Ecce adsum.Si abstuleris de medio tui catenam,et desieris extendere digitum et loqui quod non prodest ;10 cum effuderis esurienti animam tuam,et animam afflictam repleveris,orietur in tenebris lux tua,et tenebr tu erunt sicut meridies.11 Et requiem tibi dabit Dominus semper,et implebit splendoribus animam tuam,et ossa tua liberabit ;et eris quasi hortus irriguus,et sicut fons aquarumcujus non deficient aqu.12 Et dificabuntur in te deserta sculorum,fundamenta generationis et generationis suscitabis ;et vocaberis dificator sepium,avertens semitas in quietem.13 Si averteris a sabbato pedem tuumfacere voluntatem tuam in die sancto meo,et vocaveris sabbatum delicatum,et sanctum Domini gloriosum,et glorificaveris eum dum non facis vias tuas,et non invenitur voluntas tua, ut loquaris sermonem :14 tunc delectaberis super Domino,et sustollam te super altitudines terr,et cibabo te hreditate Jacob patris tui :os enim Domini locutum est.]