以赛亚书 58:1-5 Isaiah 58:1-5
你要大声喊叫，不可止息；扬起声来，好像吹角。向我百姓说明他们的過犯；向雅各家说明他们的罪恶。他们天天寻求我，乐意明白我的道，好像行义的国民，不離弃他们神的典章，向我求問公义的判语，喜悦亲近神。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。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於上。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？
“Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast. Shout aloud! Don’t be timid. Tell my people Israel of their sins! Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple every day
and seem delighted to learn all about me. They act like a righteous nation that would never abandon the laws of its God. They ask me to take action on their behalf, pretending they want to be near me. ‘We have fasted before you!’ they say. ‘Why aren’t you impressed? We have been very hard on ourselves, and you don’t even notice it!’
“I will tell you why!” I respond. “It’s because you are fasting to please yourselves. Even while you fast, you keep oppressing your workers. What good is fasting
when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting
will never get you anywhere with me. You humble yourselves by going through the motions of penance, bowing your heads like reeds bending in the wind. You dress in burlap and cover yourselves with ashes. Is this what you call fasting? Do you really think this will please the Lord?
虚假的行义与不诚心的举动不能带我们到耶和华的面前。他们的过犯是：勒逼人，互相争竞以凶恶的拳头打人，虚伪的行动，虚假的忏悔。这些都是讨自己的喜乐不是讨耶和华的悦纳。 Pious pretense and acting will not bring us into the presence of the Almighty God. The Lord’s offense against them: oppressing people, inward fighting and quarrelling, the pretense of piety and false display of penitence. It only pleases themselves and not God.
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