Isaiah

¹ “Call out from your throat, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet, And declare to My people their transgression And to the house of Jacob their sins.

² As a nation that has done righteousness And has not forsaken the judgment of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; They find pleasure in the nearness of God.

³ Why have we afflicted our souls and You do not know?’ Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire, And oppress all your workers.

⁴ You do not fast like you do today to make your voice heard on high.

⁵ Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Yahweh?

⁶ To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To release the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?

⁷ And bring the afflicted homeless into the house; When you see the naked, you cover him; And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

⁸ And your recovery will speedily spring forth; And your righteousness will go before you; The glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard.

⁹ You will cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,

¹⁰ And satisfy the soul of the afflicted, Then your light will rise in darkness And your thick darkness will become like midday.

¹¹ And satisfy your soul in scorched places, And fortify your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

¹² You will raise up the foundations of past generation upon generation; And you will be called the repairer of the breach, The restorer of the paths for one to inhabit.

¹³ “If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own desire on My holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of Yahweh honorable, And honor it, by not doing your own ways, By not finding your own desire And speaking your own word,

¹⁴ And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; And I will feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father, For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.”