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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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