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Isaiah
Chapter 58
1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet,
and
show my people their transgression,
and
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
forsook not the ordinance
of
their 'Elohiym/Godhead.
They
ask of me the ordinances of justice . . .
they
take delight in approaching to 'Elohiym/Godhead.
3
Therefore have we fasted, say they,
and
you see not?
Why
have we afflicted our soul,
and
you take no knowledge?
Behold,
in the day of your fast
you
find pleasure,
and
exact all your labors.
4
Behold, you fast for strife and debate,
and
to smite with the fist of wickedness.
You
shall not fast as you do this day,
to
make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is
it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and
to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will
you call this a fast,
and
an acceptable day to Jehovah/God?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
To
loose the bands of wickedness,
to
undo the heavy burdens,
and
to let the oppressed go free,
and
that you break every yoke?
7
Is it not to deal 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 hide not yourself from your own flesh?
8
Then shall your light break forth as the morning,
and
your health shall spring forth speedily
and
your righteousness shall go before you;
the
glory of Jehovah/God shall be your reward.
9
Then shall you call,
and
Jehovah/God shall answer;
you
shall cry,
and
he shall say,
Here
I am.
If
you take away from the midst of you the yoke,
the
putting forth of the finger,
and
speaking vanity; 10
and
if you draw out your soul to the hungry,
and
satisfy the afflicted soul;
then
shall your light rise in obscurity,
and
your darkness be as the noon day.
{God
guides us and we receive benefits if we follow His guidance}
11~~And
Jehovah/God shall guide you continually,
and
satisfy your soul
{inner
happiness}
in
drought/'tight places'/'scorched places'
{pressure},
and
make fat your bones
{material prosperity}
and
you shall be like a watered garden
{water makes the garden grow - water of the word},
and
like a spring of water,
whose
waters fail not
{another term of great prosperity}.
12
And those who shall be of you
shall
build the old waste places.
You
shall raise up the foundations
of
many generations;
and
you shall be called,
The
repairer of the breach,
The
restorer of paths to dwell in.
13
If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
from
doing your pleasure on My holy day;
and
call the Sabbath a delight,
the
holy of Jehovah/God,
honorable
and
shall honor him,
not
doing your own Ways,
nor
finding your own pleasure,
nor
speaking your own words/
'doctrinal
communications' {dabar} . . . 14
then
shall you delight yourself in Jehovah/God;
and
I will cause you to ride
upon
the high places of the earth,
and
feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
For the mouth of Jehovah/God has spoken it.
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