Isaiah - Chapter 58 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
  • 2. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
  • 3. Wherefore have we fasted, {cf15I say they}, and thou seest not? {cf15I wherefore} have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
  • 4. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as {cf15I ye do this} day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
  • 5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? {cf15I is it} to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes {cf15I under him}? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
  • 6. {cf15I Is} not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
  • 7. {cf15I Is it} not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
  • 8. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
  • 9. Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I {cf15I am}. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
  • 10. And {cf15I if} thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness {cf15I be} as the noonday:
  • 11. And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
  • 12. And {cf15I they that shall be} of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
  • 13. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, {cf15I from} doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking {cf15I thine own} words:
  • 14. Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken {cf15I it}.
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