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1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 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 the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Why have we fasted, [say they], and you see not? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you will not fast as [you do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD [Yahweh]?
6 [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 you break every yoke?
7 [Is it] not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then your light will break forth as the morning, and your health will spring forth speedily: and your righteousness will go before you; the glory of the LORD [Yahweh] will be your rear guard.
9 Then will you call, and the LORD [Yahweh] will answer; you will cry, and he will say, Here I [am]. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And [if] you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then will your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness [be] as the noonday:
11 And the LORD [Yahweh] will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And [they that will be] of you will build the old waste places: you will raise up the foundations of many generations; and you will be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, [from] doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD [Yahweh], honourable; and will honour him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:
14 Then will you delight yourself in the LORD [Yahweh]; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD [Yahweh] has spoken [it].