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Isaiah 58

Observances of Fasts

1

aCry loudly, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet, And declare to My people their  btransgression And to the house of Jacob their sins.

2

"Yet they  aseek Me day by day and delight to know My ways, As a nation that has done  brighteousness And  chas not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for just decisions, They delight  din the nearness of God.

3

`Why have we  afasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not  1notice?' Behold, on the  bday of your fast you find your desire, And drive hard all your workers.

4

"Behold, you fast for contention and  astrife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast like you do today to  bmake your voice heard on high.

5

"Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing  1one's head like a reed And for spreading out  asackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an  bacceptable day to the LORD?

6

"Is this not the fast which I choose, To  aloosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to  blet the oppressed go free And  cbreak every yoke?

7

"Is it not to  adivide your bread  1with the hungry And  bbring the homeless poor into the house; When you see the  cnaked, to cover him; And not to  dhide yourself from your own flesh?

8

"Then your  alight will break out like the dawn, And your  brecovery will speedily spring forth; And your  crighteousness will go before you; The glory of the  dLORD will be your rear guard.

9

"Then you will  acall, and the LORD will answer; You will cry, and He will say, `Here I am.' If you  bremove the yoke from your midst, The  1 cpointing of the finger and  dspeaking wickedness,

10

And if you  1 agive yourself to the hungry And satisfy the  2desire of the afflicted, Then your  blight will rise in darkness And your gloom will become like midday.

11

"And the  aLORD will continually guide you, And  bsatisfy your  1desire in scorched places, And  cgive strength to your bones; And you will be like a  dwatered garden, And like a  espring of water whose waters do not  2fail.

12

"Those from among you will  arebuild the ancient ruins; You will  braise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the  cbreach, The restorer of the  1streets in which to dwell.

Keeping the Sabbath

13

"If because of the sabbath, you  aturn your foot From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the sabbath a  bdelight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, And honor it, desisting from your  cown ways, From seeking your own pleasure And  dspeaking your own word,

14

Then you will take  adelight in the LORD, And I will make you ride  bon the heights of the earth; And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, For the  cmouth of the LORD has spoken."



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