Isaiah:58

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* Cry aloud , spare not . Lift up thy voice like a trumpet , and declare to my people their transgression , and to 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 righteous judgments ; they delight to draw near to God . * Why have we fasted , [they say ], and thou see not ? We have afflicted our soul , and thou take no knowledge . Behold , in the day of your fast ye find pleasure , and exact from all your laborers . * Behold , ye fast for strife and contention , and to smite with the fist of wickedness . Ye do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high . * 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 thou call this a fast , and an acceptable day to LORD ? * 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 ye break every yoke ? * Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man , and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house , when thou see a naked man , that thou cover him , and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh ? * Then thy light shall break forth as the morning , and thy healing shall spring forth speedily . And thy righteousness shall go before thee . The glory of LORD shall be thy rearward . * Then thou shall call , and LORD will answer , thou shall cry , and he will say , Here I am . If thou take the yoke away from the midst of thee , the putting forth of the finger , and speaking wickedly , * and if thou draw out thy soul to a hungry man , and satisfy an afflicted soul , then thy light shall rise in darkness , and thine obscurity be as the noonday . * And LORD will guide thee continually , and satisfy thy soul in dry places , and make strong thy bones . And thou shall be like a watered garden , and like a spring of water whose waters fail not . * And those who shall be of thee shall build the old waste places . Thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations , and thou shall 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 , [and ] the holy of LORD honorable , and shall honor it , not doing thine own ways , nor finding thine own pleasure , no * then thou shall delight thyself in LORD , and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth , and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father . For the mouth of LORD has spoken it .

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