(KJV) Isaiah 58¹

⥃True Fasts and Sabbaths

[1] Cry aloud², spare³ not, lift up⁴ thy voice like⁵ a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. [2] Yet they seek⁶ me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask⁷ of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

[3] Wherefore have we fasted⁸, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted⁹ our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in¹⁰ the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact¹¹ all your labours¹². [4] Behold, ye fast¹³ for strife and debate, and to smite¹⁴ with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day¹⁵, to make your voice to be heard on high. [5] Is it such¹⁶ a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul¹⁷? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread¹⁸ sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable¹⁹ day to the Lord? [6] [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose²⁰ the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens²¹, and to let the oppressed²² go free, and that ye break every yoke? [7] [Is it] not to deal²³ thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring²⁴ the poor that are cast out²⁵ to thy house? when thou seest the naked²⁶, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own²⁷ flesh?

[8] Then shall thy light²⁸ break forth as the morning, and thine²⁹ health shall spring forth speedily: and thy³⁰ righteousness shall go before thee; the glory³¹ of the Lord shall be thy rereward³². [9] Then shalt thou³³ call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here³⁴ I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke³⁵, the putting³⁶ forth of the finger, and speaking³⁷ vanity; [10] And [if] thou draw³⁸ out thy soul³⁹ to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then⁴⁰ shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday: [11] And the Lord⁴¹ shall guide thee continually, and satisfy⁴² thy soul in drought⁴³, and make fat⁴⁴ thy bones: and thou shalt be like⁴⁵ a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail⁴⁶ not. [12] And [they that shall be] of thee shall build⁴⁷ the old waste⁴⁸ places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer⁴⁹ of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

[13] If thou turn⁵⁰ away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call⁵¹ the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words: [14] Then shalt thou delight⁵² thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride⁵³ upon the high places of the earth, and feed⁵⁴ thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth⁵⁵ of the Lord hath spoken [it].