1." Cry aloud, spare and don't hold back!" Lift up your voice like a trumpet:
Tell 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 did not forsake the ordinance of their GOD. They ask of ME the ordinances of Justice; they take delight in approaching GOD.
3. "Why have we fasted, and YOU have not seen?" Why have we afflicted
our souls, and YOU take no notice?" In fact in the day of your fast, you find
pleasures and exploit all your laborers?"
4. Indeed you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You will not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high.
5. Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul?
6. Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and
ashes?
7. Is it not to share your break with the hungry, and that you bring to your house
the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not
hide yourself from your own flesh?
8. Then your light will break forth like the morning. your healing will spring
forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; The Glory of The
Lord shall be your rear guard.
9. Then you shall call and the Lord will answer; you shall cry and He will
say: "Here I AM" If you take away the yoke from your midst; the pointing
of the finger, and speaking wickedness
10. If you extend your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the affected soul, Then
Your Light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the
noonday.
11. The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and
strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring
of water, whose waters do not fall.
12. Those from among 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 BREECH; The Restorer of Streets 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 day of the Lord Honorable;
and shall Honor Him, not doing your own ways. Not finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own words,.
14. Then you shall delight yourself in The LORD; and I will cause you to ride on
the high hills of the earth; and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
The Mouth of the LORD has spoken."
