Isaiah 58

“Cry out at full voice;
do not hold back!
Lift up your voice like a trumpet.
Declare to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins. Day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, like a nation that had practiced righteousness and had not forsaken the justice of its God.
They ask me for righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted, and you have not seen?
Why have we afflicted our souls, and you take no notice?’ Look, on the day of your fast you pursue your own pleasure and oppress all your workers. Look, you fast for strife and quarrels, and to strike with a wicked fist.
You cannot fast as you do today and make your voice heard on high. Is this the fast I choose, a day for a person to afflict his soul?
To bow his head like a reed and spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD? Is not this the fast I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, undo the straps of the yoke, let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will spring up quickly.
Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove from your midst the yoke, the pointing finger, and evil speech, if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your gloom will be like noon. The LORD will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in parched places, and strengthen your bones.
You will be like a watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins;
you will raise up the foundations of generations past.
You will be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. If you turn your foot back from the Sabbath, from pursuing your own pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the LORD honorable;
if you honor it by not following your own ways, pursuing your own pleasure, or talking of your own affairs, then you will delight in the LORD.
I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

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