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aperta. Et ornásti te regi unguénto, et multiplicásti pigménta tua. Misísti legátos tuos procul, et humiliáta es usque ad ínferos. In multitúdine viæ tuæ laborásti; non dixísti: Quiéscam. Vitam manus tuæ invenísti; proptérea non rogásti. Pro quo sollícita timuísti, quia mentíta es, et mei non es recordáta, neque cogitásti in corde tuo? Quia ego tacens et quasi non videns, et mei oblíta es. Ego annuntiábo justítiam tuam, et ópera tua non próderunt tibi. Cum clamáveris, líberent te congregáti tui, et omnes eos áuferet ventus, tollet aura. Qui autem fidúciam habet mei, hæreditábit terram, et possidébit montem sanctum meum. Et dicam: Viam fácite, præbéte iter; declináte de sémita, auférte offendícula de via pópuli mei. Quia hæc dicit Excélsus, et Sublímis, hábitans æternitátem, et sanctum nomen ejus: in excélso et in sancto hábitans, et cum contríto et húmili spíritu: ut vivíficet spíritum humílium, et vivíficet cor contritórum. Non enim in sempitérnum litigábo, neque usque ad finem iráscar, quia spíritus a fácie mea egrediétur, et flatus ego fáciam. Propter iniquitátem avarítiæ ejus irátus sum, et percússi eum. Abscóndi a te fáciem meam, et indignátus sum; et ábiit vagus in via cordis sui. Vias ejus vidi, et sanávi eum; et redúxi eum, et réddidi consolatiónes ipsi, et lugéntibus ejus. Creávi fructum labiórum pacem; pacem ei qui longe est et qui prope, dixit Dóminus, et sanávi eum. Ímpii autem quasi mare fervens, quod quiéscere non potest, et redúndant fluctus ejus in conculcatiónem et lutum. Non est pax ímpiis, dicit Dóminus Deus. LVIII. Clama, ne cesses, quasi tuba exálta vocem tuam, et annúntia pópulo meo scélera eórum, et dómui Jacob peccáta eórum. Me étenim de die in diem quærunt, et scire vias meas volunt, quasi gens quæ justítiam fécerit, et judícium Dei sui non derelíquerit. Rogant me judícia justítiæ; appropinquáre Deo volunt. Quare jejunávimus, et non aspexísti; humiliávimus ánimas nostras, et nescísti? Ecce in die jejúnii vestri invenítur volúntas vestra, et omnes debitóres vestros repétitis. Ecce ad lites et contentiónes jejunátis, et percútitis pugno ímpie. Nolíte jejunáre sicut usque ad hanc diem, ut

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audiátur in excélso clamor vester. Numquid tale est jejúnium quod elégi, per diem afflígere hóminem ánimam suam? numquid contorquére quasi círculum caput suum, et saccum et cínerem stérnere? numquid istud vocábis jejúnium, et diem acceptábilem Dómino? Nonne hoc est magis jejúnium quod elégi? Dissólve colligatiónes impietátis, solve fascículos depriméntes, dimítte eos qui confrácti sunt líberos, et omne onus dirúmpe; frange esuriénti panem tuum, et egénos vagósque induc in domum tuam; cum víderis nudum, óperi eum, et carnem tuam ne despéxeris. Tunc erúmpet quasi mane lumen tuum; et sánitas tua cítius oriétur, et anteíbit fáciem tuam justítia tua, et glória Dómini cólliget te. Tunc invocábis, et Dóminus exáudiet; clamábis, et dicet: Ecce adsum. Si abstúleris de médio tui caténam, et desíeris exténdere dígitum et loqui quod non prodest; cum effúderis esuriénti ánimam tuam, et ánimam afflíctam repléveris, oriétur in ténebris lux tua, et ténebræ tuæ erunt sicut merídies. Et réquiem tibi dabit Dóminus semper, et implébit splendóribus ánimam tuam, et ossa tua liberábit; et eris quasi hortus irríguus, et sicut fons aquárum cujus non defícient aquæ. Et ædificabúntur in te desérta sæculórum, fundaménta generatiónis et generatiónis suscitábis; et vocáberis ædificátor sépium, avértens sémitas in quiétem. Si avérteris a sábbato pedem tuum fácere voluntátem tuam in die sancto meo, et vocáveris sábbatum delicátum, et sanctum Dómini gloriósum, et glorificáveris eum dum non facis vias tuas, et non invenítur volúntas tua, ut loquáris sermónem: tunc delectáberis super Dómino, et sustóllam te super altitúdines terræ, et cibábo te hæreditáte Jacob patris tui: os enim Dómini locútum est. LIX. Ecce non est abbreviáta manus Dómini, ut salváre néqueat, neque aggraváta est auris ejus, ut non exáudiat. Sed iniquitátes vestræ divisérunt inter vos et Deum vestrum; et peccáta vestra abscondérunt fáciem ejus a vobis, ne exaudíret.

[Isaiah 57:9-59:2]

9 And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell. 10 Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou saidst not: I will rest: thou hast found life of thy hand, therefore thou hast not asked. 11 For whom hast thou been solicitous and afraid, that thou hast lied, and hast not been mindful of me, nor thought on me in thy heart? for I am silent, and as one that seeth not, and thou hast forgotten me. 12 I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee. 13 When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the wind shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess my holy mount. 14 And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people. 15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart. 18 I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him. 19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him. 20 But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire. 21 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.

1 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 For they seek me from day to day, sad desire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God. 3 Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors. 4 Behold you fast for debates and strife. and strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high. 5 Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? 6 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden. 7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh. 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the glory of the Lord shall gather thee up. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not. 10 When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday. 11 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail. 12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest. 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found: to speak a word: 14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

1 Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.