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1 “Call out from the throat, do not hold back! Like a shofar lift up your voice, and declare to My people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 And day by day they seek Me, and they delight to know My ways, like a nation that does righteousness, and the justice of their God they do not forsake! They ask me for judgments of righteousness; in the nearness of God they delight: 3 “Why have we fasted and You have not seen—we have afflicted our soul, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your⁺ fast you⁺ find pleasure, and you⁺ oppress all your⁺ laborers! 4 Behold, for quarreling and strife you⁺ fast, and for striking with the fist of wickedness. You⁺ shall not fast like this day to make heard your⁺ voice on high. 5 Is it like this, the fast I choose? A day for a man to afflict his soul, for bowing down his head like a reed, and spreading out sackcloth and ashes—do you call this a fast, and a day of pleasure for YHWH? 6 Is not this the fast I choose: To open the bonds of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, and to send forth the crushed ones free, and tear off every yoke? 7 Is it not to distribute your bread to the hungry, and the wandering the poor you should bring into the house; when you see one naked then clothe him, and do not hide yourself from your own flesh? Isaiah 58:1-7, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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