Liber Isaiae

Isaiae, chapter 58, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 58 Vulgate

   1 Clama fortiter, ne cesses; quasi tuba exalta vocem tuam et annuntia populo meo scelera eorum et domui Iacob peccata eorum.
   2 Me etenim de die in diem quaerunt et scire vias meas volunt, quasi gens, quae iustitiam fecerit et iudicium Dei sui non dereliquerit. Rogant me iudicia iustitiae, appropinquare Deum volunt.
   3 "Quare ieiunavimus, et non aspexisti, humiliavimus animam nostram, et nescisti?". Ecce, in die ieiunii vestri agitis negotia et omnes operarios vestros opprimitis.
   4 Ecce, ad lites et contentiones ieiunatis et percutitis pugno impie. Nolite ieiunare sicut hodie, ut audiatur in excelso clamor vester.
   5 Numquid tale est ieiunium, quod elegi, dies, quo homo affligit animam suam? Numquid contorquere quasi iuncum caput suum et saccum et cinerem sternere? Numquid istud vocabis ieiunium et diem acceptabilem Domino?
   6 Nonne hoc est ieiunium, quod elegi: dissolvere vincula iniqua, solvere funes iugi, dimittere eos, qui confracti sunt, liberos, et omne iugum dirumpere?
   7 Nonne frangere esurienti panem tuum, et egenos, vagos inducere in domum? Cum videris nudum, operi eum et carnem tuam ne despexeris.
   8 Tunc erumpet quasi aurora lumen tuum, et sanatio tua citius orietur; et anteibit faciem tuam iustitia tua, et gloria Domini colliget te.
   9 Tunc invocabis, et Dominus exaudiet; clamabis, et dicet: "Ecce adsum". Si abstuleris de medio tui iugum et desieris extendere digitum et loqui iniquitatem;
   10 si effuderis esurienti animam tuam et animam afflictam satiaveris, orietur in tenebris lux tua, et caligo tua erit sicut meridies.
   11 Et te ducet Dominus semper, et satiabit in locis aridis animam tuam et ossa tua firmabit; et eris quasi hortus irriguus et sicut fons aquarum, cuius non deficient aquae.
   12 Et reaedificabit gens tua ruinas antiquas; fundamenta generationis et generationis suscitabis: et vocaberis restitutor ruinarum, instaurator viarum, ut habitentur.
   13 Si averteris a sabbato pedem tuum, facere negotia tua in die sancto meo, et vocaveris sabbatum delicias et diem Domino sacrum gloriosum; et glorificaveris eum relinquens vias tuas et negotia tua et sermones tuos,
   14 tunc delectaberis super Domino; et vehi te faciam super altitudines terrae et cibabo te hereditate Iacob patris tui. Os enim Domini locutum est.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
   2 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 the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
   3 ¶ 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 pleasure, and exact all your labours.
   4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
   5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
   6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
   7 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?
   8 ¶ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
   9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
   10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
   11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
   12 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.
   13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
   14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.