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1 “Cry
aloud! Don’t spare!
Lift up your
voice like a
trumpet!
Declare to my
people their disobedience,
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 didn’t forsake
the ordinance of
their God,
they ask of
me righteous
judgments.
They delight
to draw near to
God.
3 ‘Why
have we fasted,’
they say, ‘and
you don’t see?
Why have we
afflicted our soul,
and you don’t
notice?’
“Behold, in the
day of your
fast you find
pleasure,
and oppress all
your laborers.
4 Behold,
you fast for
strife and
contention,
and to strike
with the fist of
wickedness.
You don’t fast
today so as
to make your
voice to be
heard on high.
5 Is
this the fast
that I have chosen?
A day for
a man to
humble his soul?
Is it to
bow down his
head like a reed,
and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under
himself?
Will you call
this a fast,
and an acceptable
day to the
LORD?
6 “Isn’t this
the fast that
I have chosen:
to release the
bonds of
wickedness,
to undo the straps
of the yoke,
to let the
oppressed go free,
and that you
break every yoke?
7 Isn’t it
to distribute your
bread to the
hungry,
and that you bring
the poor who
are cast out to
your house?
When you see
the naked,
that you cover
him;
and that you
not hide yourself
from your own
flesh?
8 Then
your light will
break out as
the morning,
and your healing
will appear quickly;
then your
righteousness shall
go before you,
and the LORD’s
glory will be
your rear guard.
9 Then
you will call,
and the LORD
will answer.
You will cry
for help, and
he will say, ‘Here
I am.’
“If you take
away from among
you the yoke,
finger pointing,
and speaking wickedly;
10 and if
you pour out your
soul to the
hungry,
and satisfy the
afflicted soul,
then your light will
rise in darkness,
and your
obscurity will be
as the noonday;
11 and
the LORD will
guide you
continually,
satisfy your soul
in dry places,
and make your
bones strong.
You will be
like a watered
garden,
and like a
spring of water
whose waters don’t fail.
12 Those
who will be
of you will
build the old
waste places.
You will raise
up the foundations
of many
generations.
You will be
called Repairer of
the Breach,
Restorer of Paths
with Dwellings.
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 the LORD
honorable,
and honor it,
not doing your own
ways,
nor finding
your own pleasure,
nor speaking
your own words,
14 then
you will delight
yourself in the
LORD,
and I will
make you to
ride on the
high places of
the earth,
and I will feed
you with the
heritage of Jacob
your father;”
for the LORD’s
mouth has spoken
it.