1 "Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.2 For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.3 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' "Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter — when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness "will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. "If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.11 The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.13 "If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,14 then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

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.]