Isaiah 58

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1 Cry loudly, do not hold back; Lift up your voice like a trumpet, and point my people to its iniquity, and to the house of Jacob for his sins.
2 They seek me every day and want to know my ways, as if they were a people who acted righteously and did not forsake the laws of their God; They ask Me about the trials of righteousness, they want to approach God:

3 `Why do we fast, but can not you see? We humble our souls, but You do not know? ' "Now, on the day of your fast, you fulfill your will and demand hard work from others."
4 Behold, you fast for strife and strife, and to beat others with a bold hand; You do not fast at this time so that your voice is heard at altitude.
5 Is this the fast that I have chosen, the day in which a man grinds his soul, when he bends his head like a reed, and places under him rags and ashes? Is this a fasting and a day pleasing to the Lord?
6th This is the fast that I have chosen: resolve the fetters of unrighteousness, untie the bonds of the yoke, and let the oppressed go free, and dissolve every yoke;
7th Take away your bread from the hungry, and bring the wandering poor into the house; When you see the naked, put it on, and do not hide from your half-blooded.

8 Then your light will open like a dawn, and your healing will soon increase, and your truth will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will accompany you.
9 Then you will call, and the Lord will hear; Cry out, and He will say: "Here I am!" When you remove from the midst of your yoke, stop stopping the finger and say offensive,
10 And you will give to the hungry your soul and will nourish the soul of the sufferer: then your light will rise in darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday;
eleven And the Lord will guide you always, and in the time of drought he will satiate your soul and bite your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and as a spring, whose waters never run low.
12 And the centuries-old deserts will be built up by your descendants: you will restore the foundations of many generations, and they will call you the restorer of the ruins, the renewer of the ways for the people.

13 If you keep your foot for the Sabbath from the fulfillment of your whims on my holy day, and you will call the Sabbath a joy, a holy day of the Lord, honored, and honor it by not engaging in your ordinary affairs, to please your whim and saying nothing,
14 Then you will have joy in the Lord, and I will bring you up to the heights of the earth and I will give you taste of the heritage of Jacob, your father: the mouth of the Lord spoke it.

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