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\c 58
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\p
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\v 1 Yahweh said to me,
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\q1 "Shout loudly!
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\q2 Shout like a loud trumpet!
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\q1 Shout to warn my Israelite people about their sins!
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\q1
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\v 2 They worship me every day;
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\q2 they come to my temple because they say that they are eager to know what I want them to do.
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\q1 They act as though they were a nation that does things that are righteous,
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\q2 that would never abandon the commands of me, their God.
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\q1 They request me to decide matters justly,
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\q2 and they are eager that I should come to them.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 They say, 'We have fasted to please you,
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\q2 but you did not notice our doing that.
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\q1 We humbled ourselves,
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\q2 but you did not pay any attention!'
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\b
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\q1 I will tell you why I did not pay attention.
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\q2 It is because when you fast,
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\q1 you do it only to please yourselves,
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\q2 and you act cruelly toward all your workers.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 You fast, but you also quarrel and fight with each other with your fists.
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\q2 Doing things like that while you fast will certainly not cause me to hear your prayers where I am, high in heaven.
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\q1
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\v 5 You bow your heads
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\q2 like the tops of reeds bend when the wind blows,
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\q1 and you wear rough clothes and cover your heads with ashes like people do when they are grieving.
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\q1 That is what you do when you are fasting,
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\q2 but do you really think that will please me?
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\b
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\q1
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\v 6 No, that is not the kind of fasting that I desire.
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\q1 Instead you should seek to free those who have been unjustly put in prison,
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\q2 and encourage those who are treated cruelly;
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\q2 and free those who have been oppressed in any way.
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\q1
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\v 7 Share your food with those who are hungry
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\q2 and to allow those who have no houses to stay in your houses.
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\q1 Give clothes to those who do not have clothes,
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\q2 and do not hide yourself from your relatives who need help from you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 If you do those things,
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\q1 what you do for others will be like a light that shines when it dawns.
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\q2 The troubles that have been caused by your sins will end quickly.
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\q1 Others will know about your righteous behavior,
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\q2 and the glorious presence of Yahweh will protect you from behind
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\q2 like I protected the Israelite people when they left Egypt.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 9 Then you will call out to me,
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\q2 and I will quickly answer and say, 'I am here to help you.'
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\b
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\q1 Stop oppressing people;
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\q2 stop falsely accusing people;
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\q2 and stop saying evil things about people.
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\q1
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\v 10 Give food to those who are hungry,
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\q2 and give to people who are afflicted the things that they need.
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\q1 Your doing that will be like a light that shines in the darkness;
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\q2 instead of doing evil to people, the good things you do for people will be like the sunshine at noontime.
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\q1
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\v 11 Yahweh will guide you continually,
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\q2 and he will give you good things to satisfy you.
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\q2 He will enable you to remain strong and healthy.
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\q1 You will be like a garden that is well watered,
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\q2 like a spring that never dries up.
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\q1
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\v 12 Your people will rebuild the cities that were destroyed long ago;
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\q2 they will build houses on top of the old foundations.
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\q1 People will say that you are the ones who are repairing the holes in the city walls,
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\q2 and who are repairing the streets where people live.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 13 Do not travel on the Sabbath days,
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\q2 and on Sabbath days do not do only the things that you delight to do.
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\q1 Enjoy the Sabbath days, and consider them to be delightful.
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\q2 The Sabbath days are my holy days.
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\q2 Honor me, Yahweh, in everything that you do on the Sabbath days.
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\q1 Do not talk about and do things to please yourselves.
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\q2 If you do all the things that I have just now told you to do,
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\q1
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\v 14 I will enable you to be joyful.
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\q2 I will greatly honor you;
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\q1 it will be as though you were riding with me above the highest mountains!
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\q2 I will give to you the blessings that I gave to your ancestor Jacob.
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\q1 Those things will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
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