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Isaiah 58 (NLT) New Living Translation

1 "Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast. Shout aloud! Don't be timid. Tell my people Israel of their sins!
2 Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple every day and seem delighted to learn all about me. They act like a righteous nation that would never abandon the laws of its God. They ask me to take action on their behalf, pretending they want to be near me.
3 'We have fasted before you!' they say. 'Why aren't you impressed? We have been very hard on ourselves, and you don't even notice it!' "I will tell you why!" I respond. "It's because you are fasting to please yourselves. Even while you fast, you keep oppressing your workers.
4 What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me.
5 You humble yourselves by going through the motions of penance, bowing your heads like reeds bending in the wind. You dress in burlap and cover yourselves with ashes. Is this what you call fasting? Do you really think this will please the LORD?
6 "No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people.
7 Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.
8 "Then your salvation will come like the dawn, and your wounds will quickly heal. Your godliness will lead you forward, and the glory of the LORD will protect you from behind.
9 Then when you call, the LORD will answer. 'Yes, I am here,' he will quickly reply. "Remove the heavy yoke of oppression. Stop pointing your finger and spreading vicious rumors!
10 Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.
11 The LORD will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring.
12 Some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities. Then you will be known as a rebuilder of walls and a restorer of homes.
13 "Keep the Sabbath day holy. Don't pursue your own interests on that day, but enjoy the Sabbath and speak of it with delight as the LORD's holy day. Honor the Sabbath in everything you do on that day, and don't follow your own desires or talk idly.
14 Then the LORD will be your delight. I will give you great honor and satisfy you with the inheritance I promised to your ancestor Jacob. I, the LORD, have spoken!"
1 Cry H7121 aloud, H1627 spare H2820 not, H408 lift up H7311 thy voice H6963 like a trumpet, H7782 and show H5046 my people H5971 their transgression, H6588 and the house H1004 of Jacob H3290 their sins. H2403
2 Yet they seek H1875 me daily H3117 H3117 , and delight H2654 to know H1847 my ways, H1870 as a nation H1471 that H834 did H6213 righteousness, H6666 and forsook H5800 not H3808 the ordinance H4941 of their God: H430 they ask H7592 of me the ordinances H4941 of justice; H6664 they take delight H2654 in approaching H7132 to God. H430
3 Wherefore H4100 have we fasted, H6684 say they , and thou seest H7200 not H3808 ? wherefore have we afflicted H6031 our soul, H5315 and thou takest no knowledge H3045 H3808 ? Behold, H2005 in the day H3117 of your fast H6685 ye find H4672 pleasure, H2656 and exact H5065 all H3605 your labors. H6092
4 Behold H2005 , ye fast H6684 for strife H7379 and debate, H4683 and to smite H5221 with the fist H106 of wickedness: H7562 ye shall not H3808 fast H6684 as ye do this day, H3117 to make your voice H6963 to be heard H8085 on high. H4791
5 Is H1961 it such H2088 a fast H6685 that I have chosen H977 ? a day H3117 for a man H120 to afflict H6031 his soul H5315 ? is it to bow down H3721 his head H7218 as a bulrush, H100 and to spread H3331 sackcloth H8242 and ashes H665 under him ? wilt thou call H7121 this H2088 a fast, H6685 and an acceptable H7522 day H3117 to the LORD H3068 ?
6 Is not H3808 this H2088 the fast H6685 that I have chosen H977 ? to loose H6605 the bands H2784 of wickedness, H7562 to undo H5425 the heavy H4133 burdens, H92 and to let the oppressed H7533 go H7971 free, H2670 and that ye break H5423 every H3605 yoke H4133 ?
7 Is it not H3808 to deal H6536 thy bread H3899 to the hungry, H7457 and that thou bring H935 the poor H6041 that are cast out H4788 to thy house H1004 ? when H3588 thou seest H7200 the naked, H6174 that thou cover H3680 him ; and that thou hide not thyself H5956 H3808 from thine own flesh H4480 H1320 ?
8 Then H227 shall thy light H216 break forth H1234 as the morning, H7837 and thine health H724 shall spring forth H6779 speedily: H4120 and thy righteousness H6664 shall go H1980 before H6440 thee ; the glory H3519 of the LORD H3068 shall be thy rearward. H622
9 Then H227 shalt thou call, H7121 and the LORD H3068 shall answer; H6030 thou shalt cry, H7768 and he shall say, H559 Here H2009 I am . If H518 thou take away H5493 from the midst H4480 H8432 of thee the yoke, H4133 the putting forth H7971 of the finger, H676 and speaking H1696 vanity; H205
10 And if thou draw out H6329 thy soul H5315 to the hungry, H7457 and satisfy H7646 the afflicted H6031 soul; H5315 then shall thy light H216 rise H2224 in obscurity, H2822 and thy darkness H653 be as the noonday: H6672
11 And the LORD H3068 shall guide H5148 thee continually, H8548 and satisfy H7646 thy soul H5315 in drought, H6710 and make fat H2502 thy bones: H6106 and thou shalt be H1961 like a watered H7302 garden, H1588 and like a spring H4161 of water, H4325 whose H834 waters H4325 fail H3576 not. H3808
12 And they that shall be of H4480 thee shall build H1129 the old H5769 waste places: H2723 thou shalt raise up H6965 the foundations H4146 of many generations H1755 H1755 ; and thou shalt be called, H7121 The repairer H1443 of the breach, H6556 The restorer H7725 of paths H5410 to dwell H3427 in.
13 If H518 thou turn away H7725 thy foot H7272 from the sabbath H4480 H7676 , from doing H6213 thy pleasure H2656 on my holy H6944 day; H3117 and call H7121 the sabbath H7676 a delight, H6027 the holy H6918 of the LORD, H3068 honorable; H3513 and shalt honor H3513 him , not doing H4480 H6213 thine own ways, H1870 nor finding H4480 H4672 thine own pleasure, H2656 nor speaking H1696 thine own words: H1697
14 Then H227 shalt thou delight thyself H6026 in H5921 the LORD; H3068 and I will cause thee to ride H7392 upon H5921 the high places H1116 of the earth, H776 and feed H398 thee with the heritage H5159 of Jacob H3290 thy father: H1 for H3588 the mouth H6310 of the LORD H3068 hath spoken H1696 it .
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