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1. "Cry with a loud voice. Do not hold back. Raise your voice like a horn, and show My people their wrong-doing and the family of Jacob their sins.
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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 .
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2. Yet they look for Me day by day, and are happy to know My ways, as a nation that has done what is right and good, and has not turned away from the Law of their God. They ask Me to be fair in what I decide, and they are happy to come near to God.
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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 .
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3. They say, 'Why have we gone without food, and You do not see it? Why have we put away our pride, and You do not know it?' See, on the day you do not eat, you do what you want to do, and make it hard for all your workers.
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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 .
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4. See, while you go without food you argue and fight and hit with a sinful hand. Going without food as you do today will not help your voice to be heard on high.
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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 .
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5. Is it a time without eating like this that I choose, a day for a man to put away his pride? Is it for bowing his head like a piece of grass, and to spread ashes and cloth made from hair for his bed? Will you call this time without eating a day that pleases the Lord?
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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 ?
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6. Is not the time without eating which I choose, a time to take off the chains of sin, and to take the heavy load of sin off the neck? Is it not a time to let those who suffer under a sinful power go free, and to break every load from their neck?
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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 ?
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7. Is it not a time to share your food with the hungry, and bring the poor man into your house who has no home of his own? Is it not a time to give clothes to the person you see who has no clothes, and a time not to hide yourself from your own family?
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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 ?
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8. Then your light will break out like the early morning, and you will soon be healed. Your right and good works will go before you. And the shining-greatness of the Lord will keep watch behind you.
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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 .
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9. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer. You will cry, and He will say, 'Here I am.' If you take the weight of sin away, and stop putting the blame on others and stop speaking sinful things,
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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 ;
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10. and if you give what you have to the hungry, and fill the needs of those who suffer, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your darkness will be like the brightest time of day.
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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 :
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11. The Lord will always lead you. He will meet the needs of your soul in the dry times and give strength to your body. You will be like a garden that has enough water, like a well of water that never dries up.
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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 .
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12. And your cities which were destroyed long ago will be built again. You will set up the stones of the bases of the old buildings. You will be called the one who builds again the broken walls, and who makes the streets on which people live like new.
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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.
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13. "If you keep from doing what pleases you on the Day of Rest, on My holy day and call the Day of Rest a happy time, and respect the holy day of the Lord, and if you honor it by turning from your own ways, and from following your own desire and by not talking in a foolish way,
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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 :
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14. then you will have joy in the Lord. I will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth. And I will feed you with the best from the land given to your father Jacob. The mouth of the Lord has spoken."
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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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