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# Isaiah 58 (New King James Version)
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Fasting that Pleases God
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##### Chapter 58
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###### 1 "Cry aloud, spare not;
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Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
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Tell My people their transgression,
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And the house of Jacob their sins.
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###### 2 Yet they seek Me daily,
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And delight to know My ways,
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As a nation that did righteousness,
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And did not forsake the ordinance of their God.
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They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;
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They take delight in approaching God.
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###### 3 'Why have we fasted,' _they say,_ 'and You have not seen?
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_Why_ have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?'
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"In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
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And exploit all your laborers.
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###### 4 Indeed you fast for strife and debate,
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And to strike with the fist of wickedness.
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You will not fast as _you do_ this day,
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To make your voice heard on high.
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###### 5 Is it a fast that I have chosen,
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A day for a man to afflict his soul?
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_Is it_ to bow down his head like a bulrush,
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And to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
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Would you call this a fast,
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And an acceptable day to the Lord?
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###### 6 "_Is_ this not the fast that I have chosen:
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To loose the bonds of wickedness,
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To undo the heavy burdens,
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To let the oppressed go free,
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And that you break every yoke?
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###### 7 _Is it_ not to share your bread with the hungry,
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And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
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When you see the naked, that you cover him,
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And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
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###### 8 Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
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Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
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And your righteousness shall go before you;
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The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
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###### 9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
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You shall cry, and He will say, 'Here I _am._'
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"If you take away the yoke from your midst,
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The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
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###### 10 _If_ you extend your soul to the hungry
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And satisfy the afflicted soul,
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Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
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And your darkness shall _be_ as the noonday.
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###### 11 The Lord will guide you continually,
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And satisfy your soul in drought,
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And strengthen your bones;
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You shall be like a watered garden,
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And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
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###### 12 Those from among you
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Shall build the old waste places;
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You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
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And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
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The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
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###### 13 "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
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_From_ doing your pleasure on My holy day,
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And call the Sabbath a delight,
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The holy _day_ of the Lord honorable,
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And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
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Nor finding your own pleasure,
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Nor speaking _your own_ words,
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###### 14 Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;
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And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
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And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
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The mouth of the Lord has spoken."
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