Isaiah 58:7
7 I want you ▼
▼tn Heb “Is it not?” The rhetorical question here expects a positive answer, “It is!”
to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. ▼
▼tn Heb “and afflicted [ones], homeless [ones] you should bring [into] a house.” On the meaning of מְרוּדִים (merudim, “homeless”) see HALOT 633 s.v. *מָרוּד.
When you see someone naked, clothe them!
Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood. ▼
▼tn Heb “and from your flesh do not hide yourself.”
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