Isaiah, 58

1. Cry out! Cease not! Exalt your voice like a trumpet, and announce to my people their wicked acts, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

1. Vièi iz sveg grla, ne suspeži se! Glas svoj poput roga podigni. Objavi mom narodu njegove zloèine, domu Jakovljevu grijehe njegove.

2. For they also seek me, from day to day, and they are willing to know my ways, like a nation which has done justice and has not abandoned the judgment of their God. They petition me for judgments of justice. They are willing to draw near to God.

2. Dan za danom oni mene traže i žele znati moje putove, kao narod koji vrši pravdu i ne zaboravlja pravo Boga svoga. Od mene ištu pravedne sudove i žude da im se Bog približi:

3. “Why have we fasted, and you have not taken notice? Why have we humbled our souls, and you have not acknowledged it?” Behold, in the day of your fasting, your own will is found, and you petition for payment from all your debtors.

3. "Zašto postimo ako ti ne vidiš, zašto se trapimo ako ti ne znaš?" Gle, u dan kad postite poslove nalazite i na posao gonite radnike svoje.

4. Behold, you fast with strife and contention, and you strike with the fist impiously. Do not choose to fast as you have done even to this day. Then your outcry will be heard on high.

4. Gle, vi postite da se prepirete i svaðate i da pesnicom bijete siromahe. Ne postite više kao danas, i èut æe vam se glas u visini!

5. Is this a fast such as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day, to contort his head in a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Should you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?

5. Zar je meni takav post po volji u dan kad se èovjek trapi? Spuštati kao rogoz glavu k zemlji, sterati poda se kostrijet i pepeo, hoæeš li to zvati postom i danom ugodnim Jahvi?

6. Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.

6. Ovo je post koji mi je po volji, rijeè je Jahve Gospoda: Kidati okove nepravedne, razvezivat' spone jarmene, puštati na slobodu potlaèene, slomiti sve jarmove;

7. Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh.

7. podijeliti kruh svoj s gladnima, uvesti pod krov svoj beskuænike, odjenuti onog koga vidiš gola i ne kriti se od onog tko je tvoje krvi.

8. Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will improve quickly, and your justice will go before your face, and the glory of the Lord will gather you up.

8. Tad æe sinut' poput zore tvoja svjetlost, i zdravlje æe tvoje brzo procvasti. Pred tobom æe iæi tvoja pravda, a Slava Jahvina bit æe ti zalaznicom.

9. Then you will call, and the Lord will heed; you will cry out, and he will say, “Here I am,” if you take away the chains from your midst, and cease to point your finger and to speak what is not beneficial.

9. Vikneš li, Jahve æe ti odgovorit, kad zavapiš, reæi æe: "Evo me!" Ukloniš li iz svoje sredine jaram, ispružen prst i besjedu bezbožnu,

10. When you pour out your life for the hungry, and you satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise up in darkness, and your darkness will be like the midday.

10. dadeš li kruha gladnome, nasitiš li potlaèenog, tvoja æe svjetlost zasjati u tmini i tama æe tvoja kao podne postati,

11. And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail.

11. Jahve æe te vodit' bez prestanka, sitit æe te u sušnim krajevima. On æe krijepit' kosti tvoje i bit æeš kao vrt zaljeven, kao studenac kojem voda nikad ne presuši.

12. And places that have been desolate for ages will be built up by you. You will raise a foundation for generation after generation. And you will be called the repairer of hedges, who turns the roadways into quiet places.

12. I ti æeš gradit' na starim razvalinama, diæi æeš temelje buduæih koljena. Zvat æe te popravljaèem pukotina i obnoviteljem cesta do naselja.

13. If you restrain your foot on the Sabbath, from doing your own will on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath delightful, and the Holy of the Lord glorious, and if you glorify him, while you do not act according to your own ways, and your own will is not found, not even to speak a word,

13. Zadržiš li nogu da ne pogaziš subotu i u sveti dan ne obavljaš poslove; nazoveš li subotu milinom a èasnim dan Jahvi posveæen; èastiš li ga odustajuæ' od puta, bavljenja poslom i pregovaranja -

14. then you will find delight in the Lord, and I will take you up, above the heights of the earth, and I will nourish you with the inheritance of Jacob, your father. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

14. tad æeš u Jahvi svoju milinu naæi, i ja æu te provesti po zemaljskim visovima, dat æu ti da uživaš u baštini oca tvog Jakova, jer Jahvina su usta govorila.