Isaiah 58:3-7

3 aWhy have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,
Or pursue your own business

cand oppress all your workers.
4Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
5 dIs such the fast that I choose,
ea day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
fto loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps gof the yoke,
to let the oppressed
Or bruised
go free,
and to break every yoke?
7Is it not ito share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
jand not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
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