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.Cross-references: Ps 40:9 · Isa 27:13 · Isa 40:6 · Isa 40:9 · Isa 56:10 · Jer 1:7 · +17 more

2Yet 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.Cross-references: Deut 5:28 · 1Sam 15:21 · Prov 15:8 · Isa 1:11 · Isa 29:13 · Isa 48:1 · +13 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 2:23 · Lev 16:29 · Lev 16:31 · Lev 23:27 · Num 23:4 · Neh 5:7 · +14 more

4Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:9 · Prov 21:27 · Isa 59:2 · Isa 59:6 · Joel 2:13 · Jonah 3:7 · +6 more

5Is 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?Cross-references: Lev 16:29 · 1Ki 21:27 · 2Ki 6:30 · 2Chr 20:3 · Ezra 10:6 · Neh 9:1 · +13 more

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?Cross-references: Neh 5:10 · Isa 58:9 · Jer 34:8 · Mic 3:2 · 1Tim 6:1

7Isn’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?Cross-references: Gen 18:2 · Gen 19:2 · Gen 19:14 · Judg 9:2 · Judg 19:20 · 2Chr 28:15 · +28 more

8Then 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.Cross-references: Ex 14:19 · Job 11:17 · Ps 37:6 · Ps 85:13 · Ps 97:11 · Ps 112:4 · +14 more

9Then 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;Cross-references: Gen 27:18 · 1Sam 3:4 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 34:15 · Ps 37:4 · Ps 50:15 · +16 more

10and 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 the noonday;Cross-references: Deut 15:7 · Job 11:17 · Ps 37:6 · Ps 41:1 · Ps 112:5 · Prov 11:24 · +6 more

11and 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.Cross-references: Job 5:20 · Job 6:15 · Ps 25:9 · Ps 32:8 · Ps 33:19 · Ps 34:9 · +20 more

12Those 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.Cross-references: Neh 2:5 · Neh 2:17 · Neh 4:1 · Neh 6:1 · Isa 44:28 · Isa 49:8 · +10 more

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,Cross-references: Ex 20:8 · Ex 31:13 · Ex 36:2 · Deut 5:12 · Neh 13:15 · Ps 27:4 · +8 more

14then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.Cross-references: Deut 32:13 · Deut 33:29 · Job 22:26 · Job 27:10 · Job 34:9 · Ps 36:8 · +14 more