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href="../isaiah/57.htm" title="Isaiah 57">◄</a> Isaiah 58 <a href="../isaiah/59.htm" title="Isaiah 59">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/58.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">True and False Fasting</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Cry aloud; do not hold back;</span><br /><span class="indent">lift up your voice like a trumpet;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">declare to my people their transgression,</span><br /><span class="indent">to the house of Jacob their sins.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Yet they seek me daily</span><br /><span class="indent">and delight to know my ways,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">as if they were a nation that did righteousness</span><br /><span class="indent">and did not forsake the judgment of their God;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they ask of me righteous judgments;</span><br /><span class="indent">they delight to draw near to God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?</span><br /><span class="indent">Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or pursue your own business">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and oppress all your workers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight</span><br /><span class="indent">and to hit with a wicked fist.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Fasting like yours this day</span><br /><span class="indent">will not make your voice to be heard on high.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is such the fast that I choose,</span><br /><span class="indent">a day for a person to humble himself?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Is it to bow down his head like a reed,</span><br /><span class="indent">and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Will you call this a fast,</span><br /><span class="indent">and a day acceptable to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Is not this the fast that I choose:</span><br /><span class="indent">to loose the bonds of wickedness,</span><br /><span class="indent">to undo the straps of the yoke,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to let the oppressed<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or bruised">b</a></sup></span> go free,</span><br /><span class="indent">and to break every yoke?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is it not to share your bread with the hungry</span><br /><span class="indent">and bring the homeless poor into your house;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">when you see the naked, to cover him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then shall your light break forth like the dawn,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your healing shall spring up speedily;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">your righteousness shall go before you;</span><br /><span class="indent">the glory of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> shall be your rear guard.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then you shall call, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will answer;</span><br /><span class="indent">you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’</span><br /><span class="ln-group">If you take away the yoke from your midst,</span><br /><span class="indent">the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">if you pour yourself out for the hungry</span><br /><span class="indent">and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">then shall your light rise in the darkness</span><br /><span class="indent">and your gloom be as the noonday.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will guide you continually</span><br /><span class="indent">and satisfy your desire in scorched places</span><br /><span class="indent">and make your bones strong;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and you shall be like a watered garden,</span><br /><span class="indent">like a spring of water,</span><br /><span class="indent">whose waters do not fail.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;</span><br /><span class="indent">you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you shall be called the repairer of the breach,</span><br /><span class="indent">the restorer of streets to dwell in.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,</span><br /><span class="indent">from doing your pleasure<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or business">c</a></sup></span> on my holy day,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and call the Sabbath a delight</span><br /><span class="indent">and the holy day of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> honorable;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">if you honor it, not going your own ways,</span><br /><span class="indent">or seeking your own pleasure,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or pursuing your own business">d</a></sup></span> or talking idly;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew or speaking a word">e</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/58-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">then you shall take delight in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or of the land">f</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the mouth of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>pursue your own business</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>bruised</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>business</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>pursuing your own business</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">or</span> speaking a word</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">of the</span> land</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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