Isa 58 | EngLXX | STEP | Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up your voice as with a trumpet, and declare to my peopletheir sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.

Isaiah 58

1 Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up your voice as with a trumpet, and declare to my peopletheir sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities. 2 They seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways, as a people that had done righteousness,and had not forsaken the judgment of their God: they now ask of me righteous judgment, and desire to drawnear to God, 3 saying, Why have we fasted, and you regard not?why have we afflicted our souls, and you did not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts you⌃find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power you⌃ wound. 4 If you⌃ fast for quarrels and strifes, and strike the lowly withyour fists, wherefore do you⌃ fast to me asyou⌃ do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying? 5 I have not chosen this fast, norsuch a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though you should bend down your neck asa ring, and spread under you sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall you⌃ call a fast acceptable. 6 I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but do you loose every burden of iniquity,do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account. 7 Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house: if you seeone naked, clothehim, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed. 8 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily springforth: and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall compass you. 9 Then shall you cry, and God shall hearken to you; while you are yet speaking he will say,Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuringspeech; 10 andif you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shallyour light spring up in darkness, and your darknessshall be as noon-day: 11 and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as yoursoul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountainfrom which the water has not failed. 12 And your old waste desertplaces shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and youshall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace. 13 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, so as not to do your pleasure on the holydays, and shall call the sabbaths delightful, holy to God;if you shall not lift up your foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth, 14 then shall you trust on the Lord; and he shall bring you up to the good places of theland, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.