Isaiah 58

58^aCry ^†aloud, ^bspare not,

Lift up thy voice ^clike a trumpet,

And ^dshew my people their transgression,

And the house of Jacob their sins.

²Yet they seek me daily,

And ^edelight 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;

^fThey take delight in approaching to God.

^3gWherefore have we fasted, ^hsay they, and thou seest not?

Wherefore have we ⁱafflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?

Behold, ^kin the day of your fast ye find pleasure,

And ^lexact all your ^||†mlabours.

⁴Behold, ⁿye fast for strife and debate,

And to smite with the fist of wickedness:

^||Ye shall not fast as ye do this day,

^oTo make your voice to be heard on high.

^5pIs it such a fast that I have chosen?

^||A day for a man to ⁱafflict his soul?

Is it to bow down his head as ^qa bulrush,

And ^rto spread ^ssackcloth and ashes under him?

Wilt thou call this a fast,

And an acceptable day to the Lord?

⁶Is not this the fast that I have chosen?

To loose ^tthe bands of wickedness,

^uTo undo ^†the heavy burdens,

And ^xto let the ^†oppressed go free,

And that ye break every yoke?

⁷Is it not ^yzto deal thy bread to the hungry,

And ^ythat thou bring the poor that are ^||cast out ^ato thy house?

^zbWhen thou seest the naked, that thou cover him;

And that thou hide not thyself from ^cthine own flesh?

^8dThen shall thy light break forth as the morning,

And thine ^ehealth shall spring forth speedily:

And thy righteousness shall go before thee;

The glory of the Lord ^†shall be thy rereward.

⁹Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer;

Thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.

If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke,

^fThe putting forth of the finger, and ^gspeaking vanity;

¹⁰And if thou ^hdraw out thy soul ⁱto the hungry,

And ^ksatisfy the afflicted soul;

^dThen shall thy light rise in obscurity,

And thy darkness be as the noonday:

¹¹And the Lord shall guide thee ^lcontinually,

And ^ksatisfy thy soul in ^†drought,

And make fat thy bones:

And thou shalt be ^mlike a watered garden,

And like a spring of water, whose waters ^†fail not.

¹²And they that shall be of thee ⁿshall build the old ^owaste places:

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;

And thou shalt be called, ^pThe repairer of the breach,

The restorer of paths to dwell in.

¹³If ^qthou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,

From doing thy pleasure on my holy day;

And call the sabbath ^ra delight,

The holy of the Lord, honourable;

And shalt honour him, not doing ^rrthine own ways,

Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

¹⁴Then ^sshalt thou delight thyself in the Lord;

And I will ^tcause thee to ride ^tuupon the high places of the earth,

And feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:

^vFor the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.