JUL 13【每日活水】 SHEN 所喜悦的禁食

扬起声来，好像吹角。

向我百姓说明他们的过犯；

向雅各家说明他们的罪恶。

2 他们天天寻求我，乐意明白我的道，好像行义的国民，

不离弃他们　 SHEN 的典章，

向我求问公义的判语，

喜悦亲近　 SHEN 。

3 他们说：我们禁食，你为何不看见呢？

我们刻苦己心，你为何不理会呢？

看哪，你们禁食的日子仍求利益，

勒逼人为你们做苦工。

4 你们禁食，却互相争竞，

以凶恶的拳头打人。

你们今日禁食，

不得使你们的声音听闻于上。

5 这样禁食岂是我所拣选、

使人刻苦己心的日子吗？

岂是叫人垂头像苇子，

用麻布和炉灰铺在他以下吗？

你这可称为禁食、为耶/和/华所悦纳的日子吗？

6 我所拣选的禁食不是要松开凶恶的绳，

解下轭上的索，

使被欺压的得自由，

折断一切的轭吗？

7 不是要把你的饼分给饥饿的人，

将飘流的穷人接到你家中，

见赤身的给他衣服遮体，

顾恤自己的骨肉而不掩藏吗？

8 这样，你的光就必发现如早晨的光；

你所得的医治要速速发明。

你的公义必在你前面行；

耶/和/华的荣光必作你的后盾。

9 那时你求告，耶/和/华必应允；

你呼求，他必说：我在这里。

你若从你中间除掉重轭

和指摘人的指头，并发恶言的事，

10 你心若向饥饿的人发怜悯，

使困苦的人得满足，

你的光就必在黑暗中发现；

你的幽暗必变如正午。

11 耶/和/华也必时常引导你，

在干旱之地使你心满意足，

骨头强壮。

你必像浇灌的园子，

又像水流不绝的泉源。

12 那些出于你的人必修造久已荒废之处；

你要建立拆毁累代的根基。

你必称为补破口的，

和重修路径与人居住的。

守安息日者的报赏

13 你若在安息日掉转你的脚步，

在我圣日不以操作为喜乐，

称安息日为可喜乐的，

称耶/和/华的圣日为可尊重的；

而且尊敬这日，

不办自己的私事，

不随自己的私意，

不说自己的私话，

14 你就以耶/和/华为乐。

耶/和/华要使你乘驾地的高处，

又以你祖雅各的产业养育你。

这是耶/和/华亲口说的。

True Fasting

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.”

The mouth of the Lord has spoken.

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