trumpet. / Declare to my people their rebellion / and to the house of Jacob their sins. / 2 For day after day they seek me out; / they seem eager to know my ways, / as if they were a nation that does what is right / and has not forsaken the commands of its God. / They ask me for just decisions / and seem eager for God to come near them. / 3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, / ‘and you have not seen it? / Why have we humbled ourselves, / and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you
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