Isaiah:58

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* Cry aloud , do not spare , Like a horn , lift high thy voice , And declare To my people , heir transgression , and To the house of Jacob their sins . * Yet , meday by day , do they seek , And in the knowledge of my ways , they delight , Like a nation that had done righteousness , And the justice of their God , had not forsaken They ask of me the just regulations , In approaching God , they delight . * Wherefore have we Fasted and thou hast not seen ? Humbled our soul , and thou wouldst take no note ? Lo ! in the day of your fast , ye take pleasure , But all your toilers , ye drive on ! * Lo ! for strife and contention , ye fast , And to smite with the fist of lawlessness , Ye shall not fast as to-day , To cause to be heard on high your voice ! * Like this , shall the fast be that I choose , A day for the son of earth to humble his soul ? Is it to bow down as a rush his head , And sackcloth and ashes , to spread out ? Is it , this , thou wilt call a fast , Or a day of acceptance with Yahweh ? * Is not , this , the fast that I must ever choose To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness , To unloose the bands of the yoke , and To let the crushed go free , and That every yoke , ye tear off ? * Is it not to break unto the hungry , thy bread , And the thrust-out oppressed , that thou bring into a home , When thou seest one naked , that thou cover him , And from thine own flesh , shalt not hide thyself ? * Then , shall break forth , as the dawn , thy light , And thy new flesh shall speedily grow , Then shall go before thee , thy righteousness , the glory of Yahweh shall bring up thy rear : * Then , shalt thou Call , and Yahweh , will answer , Cry out , and he will say , Behold me ! If thou remove , out of thy midst the yoke , The pointing of the finger , and The speaking of iniquity ; * And shalt let thine own soul a go out to the hungry , And the soul of the oppressed , thou shalt satisfy , Then shall break forth in darkness thy light , And thy thick darkness , become as the splendour of noon ; * Then will Yahweh guide thee continually , And will satisfy , in scorched regions thine own soul , Yea Shy very bones , will he invigorate , So shall thou become like a garden wellwatered , And like a spring of water whose waters do not deceive ; * And they who come of thee shall build the wastes of age-past times , And as for the foundations of generation after generation , thou shall rear them up , So shalt thou be called A Repairer of broken walls , A Restorer of paths leading home . * If thou turn back . From the sabbath Shy foot , From doing thine own pleasure on my holy day , And shall call The sabbath , An exquisite delight , The holy day of Yahweh , A day to be honoured , And so shall honour it rather Than do thine own ways , Than take thine own pleasure or Than speak thine own word , * Then , shall then rest thine own exquisite delight upon Yahweh , And I will cause thee to ride over the high places of the land , And will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob Shy father , For the mouth of Yahweh , hath spoken .

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