English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 58, verse 1 in Hcsb Version

Isaiah 58 : 1 (HCSB)

"Cry out loudly, don't hold back! Raise your voice like a trumpet. Tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58 : 2 (HCSB)

They seek Me day after day and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God."

Isaiah 58 : 3 (HCSB)

"Why have we fasted, but You have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but You haven't noticed!" "Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.

Isaiah 58 : 4 (HCSB)

You fast *with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.

Isaiah 58 : 5 (HCSB)

Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?

Isaiah 58 : 6 (HCSB)

Isn't the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?

Isaiah 58 : 7 (HCSB)

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and to not ignore your own flesh *and blood ?

Isaiah 58 : 8 (HCSB)

Then your light will appear like the dawn, and your recovery will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the LORD's glory will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58 : 9 (HCSB)

At that time, when you call, the LORD will answer; when you cry out, He will say: Here I am. If you get rid of the yoke from those around you, the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,

Isaiah 58 : 10 (HCSB)

and if you offer yourself to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted one, then your light will shine in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Isaiah 58 : 11 (HCSB)

The LORD will always lead you, satisfy you in a parched land, and strengthen your bones. You will be like a watered garden and like a spring whose waters never run dry.

Isaiah 58 : 12 (HCSB)

Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the foundations laid long ago; you will be called the repairer of broken walls, the restorer of streets where people live.

Isaiah 58 : 13 (HCSB)

"If you keep from desecrating the Sabbath, from doing whatever you want on My holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy *day of the LORD honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, seeking your own pleasure, or talking too much;

Isaiah 58 : 14 (HCSB)

then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride over the heights of the land, and let you enjoy the heritage of your father Jacob." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.