Cry aloud
, spare
not, lift
up thy voice
like a trumpet
, and shew
my people
their transgression
, and the house
of Jacob
their sins
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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
?
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
?
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
?
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
.
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
;
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
:
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.
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
.
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
:
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 .