Isaiah:58

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* Cry (note :)The Lord thus speaks to the prophet willing him to use all diligence and severity to rebuke the hypocrites .(:note ) aloud , spare not , lift up thy voice like a trumpet , and show my people their transgression , and the house of Jacob their sins . * Yet they (note :)They will seem to worship me and have outward holiness .(:note ) 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 . * * 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 (note :)So long as you use contention and oppression , your fasting and prayers will not be heard .(:note ) heard on high . * Is it such a fast that I haue chosen , that a man should afflict his soule for a day , and to bowe downe his head , as a bull rush , and to lie downe in sackecloth and ashes ? wilt thou call this a fasting , or 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 (note :)That you leave off all your extortions .(:note ) yoke ? * [Is it ] not to deal thy bread to the hungry , and that thou shouldest bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked , that thou shouldest cover him ; and that thou shouldest not hide thyself from (note :)For in him you see yourself as in a mirror .(:note ) thy own flesh ? * Then shall thy (note :)That is , the prosperous estate with which God will bless you .(:note ) light break forth as the morning , and thy health shall spring forth speedily : and thy The testimony of your goodness will appear before God and man . righteousness shall go before thee ; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear guard . * Then shalt thou call , and the LORD shall answer ; thou shalt cry , and he shall say , Here I [am ]. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke , the putting forth of the (note :)By which is meant all manner of injury .(:note ) finger , and speaking vanity ; * And [if ] thou shalt (note :)That is , have compassion on their miseries .(:note ) draw out thy soul to the hungry , and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in Your adversity will be turned into prosperity . obscurity , and thy darkness [be ] as the noonday : * And the Lord shall guide thee continually , and satisfie thy soule in drought , and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watred garden , and like a spring of water , whose waters faile not . * And [they that shall be ] of thee shall build the old (note :)Signifying that of the Jews would come such as would build again the ruins of Jerusalem and Judea : but chiefly this is meant of the spiritual Jerusalem , whose builders were the Apostles .(:note ) 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 shalt (note :)If you refrain yourself from your wicked works .(:note ) 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 thy own ways , nor finding thy own pleasure , nor speaking [thy own ] words : * Then shalt thou delite in the Lord , &amp ; I wil cause thee to mount vpon the hie places of the earth , and feede thee with the heritage of Iaakob thy father : for the mouth of ye Lord hath spoken it .

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