ASV_Strong : Isaiah 58
1. Cry[H7121] aloud[H1627], spare[H2820] not[H7311], lift up thy voice[H6963] like a trumpet[H7782], and declare[H5046] unto my people[H5971] their transgression[H6588], and to the house[H1004] of Jacob[H3290] their sins[H2403].
2. Yet they seek[H1875] me daily[H3117], and delight[H2654] to know[H1847] my ways[H1870]: as a nation[H1471] that did[H6213] righteousness[H6666], and forsook[H5800] not the ordinance[H4941] of their God[H430], they ask[H7592] of me righteous[H4941] judgments[H6664]; they delight[H2654] to draw near[H7132] unto God[H430].
3. Wherefore have we fasted[H6684], say they[H7200], and thou seest not[H6031]? wherefore have we afflicted our soul[H5315], and thou takest no knowledge[H3045]? Behold[H3117], in the day of your fast[H6685] ye find[H4672] your own pleasure[H2656], and exact[H5065] all your labors[H6092].
4. Behold[H6684], ye fast for strife[H7379] and contention[H7379], and to smite[H5221] with the fist[H106] of wickedness[H7562]: ye fast[H6684] not this day[H3117] so as to make your voice[H6963] to be heard[H8085] on high[H4791].
5. Is such the fast[H6685] that I have chosen[H977]? the day[H3117] for a man[H120] to afflict[H6031] his soul[H5315]? Is it to bow down[H3721] his head[H7218] as a rush[H100], and to spread[H3331] sackcloth[H8242] and ashes[H665] under him[H7121]? wilt thou call this[H2088] a fast[H6685], and an acceptable[H7522] day[H3117] to Jehovah[H3068]?
6. Is not this the fast[H6685] that I have chosen[H977]: to loose[H6605] the bonds[H2784] of wickedness[H7562], to undo[H5425] the bands[H92] of the yoke[H4133], and to let the oppressed[H7533] go[H7971] free[H2670], and that ye break[H5423] every yoke[H4133]?
7. Is it not 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 thou seest[H7200] the naked[H6174], that thou cover[H3680] him[H5956]; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh[H1320]?
8. Then shall thy light[H216] break forth[H1234] as the morning[H7837], and thy healing[H724] shall spring forth[H6779] speedily[H4120]; and thy righteousness[H6664] shall go[H1980] before[H6440] thee[H3519]; the glory of Jehovah[H3068] shall by thy rearward[H622].
9. Then shalt thou call[H7121], and Jehovah[H3068] will answer[H6030]; thou shalt cry[H7768], and he will say[H559], Here I am[H5493]. If thou take away from the midst[H8432] of thee the yoke[H4133], the putting forth[H7971] of the finger[H676], and speaking[H1696] wickedly[H205];
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 darkness[H653], and thine obscurity[H2822] be as the noonday[H6672];
11. and Jehovah[H3068] will guide[H5148] thee continually[H8548], and satisfy[H7646] thy soul[H5315] in dry[H6710] places[H2502], and make strong thy bones[H6106]; and thou shalt be like a watered[H7302] garden[H1588], and like a spring[H4161] of water[H4325], whose waters[H4325] fail not[H3576].
12. And they that shall be of thee shall build[H1129] the old[H5769] waste places[H2723]; thou shalt raise up[H6965] the foundations[H4146] of many[H1755] generations[H1755]; and thou shalt be called[H7121] The repairer[H1443] of the breach[H6556], The restorer[H7725] of paths[H5410] to dwell in[H3427].
13. If thou turn away[H7725] thy foot[H7272] from the sabbath[H7676], from doing[H6213] thy pleasure[H2656] on my holy[H6944] day[H3117]; and call[H7121] the sabbath[H7676] a delight[H6027], and the holy[H6918] of Jehovah[H3068] honorable[H3513]; and shalt honor[H3513] it[H6213], not doing thine own ways[H1870], nor finding[H4672] thine own pleasure[H2656], nor speaking[H1696] thine own words[H1697]:
14. then shalt thou delight[H6026] thyself in Jehovah[H3068]; and I will make thee to ride[H7392] upon the high places[H1116] of the earth[H776]; and I will feed[H398] thee with the heritage[H5159] of Jacob[H3290] thy father[H1]: for the mouth[H6310] of Jehovah[H3068] hath spoken it[H1696].
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