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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 58 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/58.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/58-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > Isaiah 58</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/isaiah/58.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Observances of Fasts</p><CC><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Cry aloud, do not hold back; <t><p class="indent1">Lift up your voice like a trumpet, <t><p class="indent1">And declare to My people their transgression <t><p class="indent1">And to the house of Jacob their sins. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight [superficially] to know My ways, <t><p class="indent1">As [if they were in reality] a nation that has done righteousness <t><p class="indent1">And has not abandoned (turned away from) the ordinance of their God. <t><p class="indent1">They ask of Me righteous judgments, <t><p class="indent1">They delight in the nearness of God. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>‘Why have we fasted,’ <i>they say,</i> ‘and You do not see it? <t><p class="indent1">Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’ <t><p class="indent1">Hear this [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins] you find <i>something you</i> desire [to do], <t><p class="indent1">And you force your hired servants to work [instead of stopping all work, as the law teaches]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“The facts are that you fast <i>only</i> for strife and brawling and to strike with the fist of wickedness. <t><p class="indent1">You do not fast as <i>you do</i> today to make your voice heard on high. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Is a fast such as this what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself [with sorrow in his soul]? <t><p class="indent1">Is it <i>only</i> to bow down his head like a reed <t><p class="indent1">And to make sackcloth and ashes as a bed [pretending to have a repentant heart]? <t><p class="indent1">Do you call this a fast and a day pleasing to the LORD? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“[Rather] is this not the fast which I choose, <t><p class="indent1">To undo the bonds of wickedness, <t><p class="indent1">To tear to pieces the ropes of the yoke, <t><p class="indent1">To let the oppressed go free <t><p class="indent1">And break apart every [enslaving] yoke? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry <t><p class="indent1">And bring the homeless poor into the house; <t><p class="indent1">When you see the naked, that you cover him, <t><p class="indent1">And not to hide yourself from [the needs of] your own flesh <i>and</i> blood? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Then your light will break out like the dawn, <t><p class="indent1">And your healing (restoration, new life) will quickly spring forth; <t><p class="indent1">Your righteousness will go before you [leading you to peace and prosperity], <t><p class="indent1">The glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; <t><p class="indent1">You will cry for help, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ <t><p class="indent1">If you take away from your midst the yoke [of oppression], <t><p class="indent1">The finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and [every form of] wicked (sinful, unjust) speech, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And if you offer yourself to [assist] the hungry <t><p class="indent1">And satisfy the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>need of the afflicted, <t><p class="indent1">Then your light will rise in darkness <t><p class="indent1">And your gloom <i>will become</i> like midday. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“And the LORD will continually guide you, <t><p class="indent1">And satisfy your soul in scorched <i>and</i> dry places, <t><p class="indent1">And give strength to your bones; <t><p class="indent1">And you will be like a watered garden, <t><p class="indent1">And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; <t><p class="indent1">You will raise up <i>and</i> restore the age-old foundations [of buildings that have been laid waste]; <t><p class="indent1">You will be called Repairer of the Breach, <t><p class="indent1">Restorer of Streets <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>with Dwellings. <p class="hdg">Keeping the Sabbath</p><poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“If you turn back your foot from [<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>unnecessary travel on] the Sabbath, <t><p class="indent1">From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, <t><p class="indent1">And call the Sabbath a [spiritual] delight, and the holy day of the LORD honorable, <t><p class="indent1">And honor it, not going your own way <t><p class="indent1">Or <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>engaging in your own pleasure <t><p class="indent1">Or speaking your own [idle] words, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/58-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then you will take pleasure in the LORD, <t><p class="indent1">And I will make you ride on the high places of the earth, <t><p class="indent1">And I will feed you with the [promised] heritage of Jacob your father; <t><p class="indent1">For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>soul</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>to dwell</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> The ancient rabbis established strict limits for travel on the Sabbath, excepting unintentional violations and religious errands. This verse became a rabbinic proof text to rule on whether a person who had put one foot beyond the Sabbath limit for his city could reenter the city. But the Hebrew text may not refer to travel at all; <i>turn back your foot from the Sabbath</i> can be interpreted as an idiom referring to keeping oneself from violating the Sabbath in other ways.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>finding</i>.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/57.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 57"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 57" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/59.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 59"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 59" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>