Isa 58
1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people
their transgression, and to 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 righteous judgments; they
delight to draw near to God.
3
Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and you see not? [wherefore] have we afflicted
our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your
own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.
4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness:
you fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
5
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? will
you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to YHWH?
6
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 you break every
yoke?
7
Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast
out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not
yourself from your own flesh?
8
Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth
speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of YHWH shall by your
rearward.
9
Then shall you call, and YHWH will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I
am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger,
and speaking wickedly;
10
and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then
shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
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and YHWH will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make
strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water,
whose waters fail not.
12
And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up
the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13
If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day;
and call the sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of YHWH honorable; and shall honor
it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own]
words:
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then shall you delight yourself in YHWH; and I will make you to ride upon the high
places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for
the mouth of YHWH has spoken it.