The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 58
1 “Cry aloud! Don’t spare!
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Declare to my people their disobedience,
and to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily,
and delight to know my ways.
As a nation that did righteousness,
and didn’t forsake the ordinance of
their God, they ask of me righteous judgments.
They delight to draw near to God.
3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you
don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and
you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find
pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
4 Behold, you fastfor strife and contention,
and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You don’tfast today so as to make your
voice to be heard on high.
5 Is this the fast that I have chosen?
A day for a man to humble his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself?
Will you call this a fast,
and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
6 “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
to release the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke?
7 Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the
hungry, and that you bring the poor who are
cast out to your house? When you see the naked,
that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from
your own flesh?
8 Then your light will break out as the
morning, and your healing will appear quickly;
then your righteousness shall go before
you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear
guard.
9 Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer.
You will cry for help, and he will say,
‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the
yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
10 and if you pour out your soul to the
hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light will rise in darkness,
and your obscurity will be as thenoonday;
11 and Yahweh will guide you continually,
satisfy your soul in dry places,
and make your bones strong.
You will be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water
whose waters don’t fail.
12 Those who will be of you will build the
old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of
many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
13 “If you turn away your foot from the
Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy
day, and call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy of Yahweh honorable,
and honor it, not doing your own ways,
nor finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own words,
14 thenyou will delight yourselfinYahweh,
and I will make you to ride on the high
places of the earth, and I willfeed you with the heritage of
Jacob your father for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.