Yeshayahu 58:
1
"Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up
your voice like a shofar! Declare to my people their transgression,
and to the house of Ya`aqov their sins!
2
"Yet they seek me day by day, and
delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't
forsake the Right-Ruling of their Elohim. They ask of me rulings of righteousness;
they delight to draw near to Elohim.
3
"'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and You don't see? [Why] have we afflicted our soul, and You take no
knowledge?'" "Look, in the day of your fasting you find [your own] pleasure,
and drive on all your laborers."
4 "Look, you fast for strife and
contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You do not fast
as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high!
5
"Is it 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? Do you
call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the YHVH?
6
"Is this not the fast that I have
chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke,
and to let the oppressed go free, and to break off every yoke?
7
"Is it not it to share your bread to
the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide
yourself from your own flesh?
8
"Then shall your light break
forth as the morning, your healing spring forth speedily. And
your righteousness shall go before you, the esteem of YHVH shall be
your rear-guard.
9
"Then when you call,YHVH would answer; when you shall cry, He will say, 'Here I am.' "If you take
away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger,
and speaking wickedly;
10 if you extend your being to
the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn
in the darkness, and your darkness be as the noonday.
11 "Then YHVH would guide you
continually, and satisfy your being in drought, and strengthen your
bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of
water, whose waters do not fail.
12 "And those from among you shall
build the old waste places. You shall raise up the foundations of many
generations. And you would be called the Repairer of the breach, the Restorer of streets to dwell in.
13
"If you do turn back your foot from
the Shabbat, from doing your pleasure on My qodesh day; and call the
Shabbat 'a delight,' the qodesh of YHVH 'esteemed,' and shall honor
it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor
speaking your own words,
14
then shall you delight yourself
in YHVH. And I will make you to ride on the high places of the
eretz; and I will feed you with the heritage of Ya`aqov your father: for
the mouth of YHVH has spoken!"
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