Cry {Hebrew: with the throat.}aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near unto God.
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure, and {Or, oppress all your laborers}exact all your labors.
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: {Or, ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make &c.}ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?
Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearward.
Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am.
If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
and if thou {Or, bestow on the hungry that which thy soul desireth}draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday;
and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in {Or, drought}dry places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor {Or, him}it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
Querverweise zu Jesaja 58,11 Jes 58,11
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the {Or, mirage}heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.
He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;They shall be full of sap and green:
For as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,As the channel of brooks that pass away;
Which are black by reason of the ice,And wherein the snow hideth itself:
What time they {Or, shrink}wax warm, they vanish;When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
{Or, The paths of their way are turned aside}The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside;They go up into the waste, and perish.
The caravans of Tema looked,The companies of Sheba waited for them.
They were put to shame because they had hoped;They came thither, and were confounded.
The meek will he guide in justice;And the meek will he teach his way.
In famine he will redeem thee from death;And in war from the power of the sword.
It will be health to thy navel,And {Or, refreshing Hebrew: moistening.}marrow to thy bones.
Thou art a fountain of gardens,A well of living waters,And flowing streams from Lebanon.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.
To deliver their soul from death,And to keep them alive in famine.
The liberal soul shall be made fat;And he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
For this God is our God for ever and ever:He will be our guide even unto death.
Oh fear Jehovah, ye his saints;For there is no want to them that fear him.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing;But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel,And afterward receive me {Or, with}to glory.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger;But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife;But he that putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be made fat.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.
They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil;And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Now may {Or, God himself and our Father}our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not {According to another reading, see.}fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.