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\v 1 "Cry loudly, do not hold back, lift up your voice like a trumpet,
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\q1 confront my people with their rebellion, and the house of Jacob with their sins.
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\v 2 Yet they seek me daily and delight in the knowledge of my ways,
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\q1 like a nation that practiced righteousness and did not abandon the law of their God.
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\q1 They ask me for righteous judgments; they take pleasure in God drawing near.
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\v 3 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'but you do not see it? Why have we humbled ourselves, but you do not notice?'
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\q1 Look, on the day of your fast you find your own pleasure and oppress all your laborers.
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\v 4 Look, you fast to quarrel and fight, and to hit with your fist of wickedness;
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\q1 you do not fast today to make your voice heard above.
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\v 5 Is this really the kind of fast that I would want: A day for anybody to humble himself,
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\q1 for him to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself?
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\q1 Do you really call this a fast, a day that pleases Yahweh?
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\v 6 Is not this the fast that I choose:
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\q1 To release wicked bonds, to undo the ropes of the yoke,
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\q1 to set the crushed ones free, and to break every yoke?
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\v 7 Is it not to break your bread with the hungry and to bring the poor and homeless into your house?"
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\q1 When you see someone naked, you should clothe him; and you should not hide yourself from your own relatives.
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\v 8 Then your light would be broken open like the sunrise, and your healing would quickly sprout up;
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\q1 your righteousness would
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go before you, and the glory of Yahweh would be your rearguard.
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\v 9 Then you would call, and Yahweh would answer; you would cry out for help, and he would say, "Here I am."
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\q1 If you take away from among yourselves the yoke, the accusing finger, and the speech of wickedness,
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\v 10 if you yourselves provide for the hungry and satisfy the need of the distressed;
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\q1 then your light will rise in the darkness, and your darkness will be like the noonday.
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\v 11 Then Yahweh will lead you continually and satisfy you in regions where there is no water,
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\q1 and he will strengthen your bones. You will be like a watered garden,
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\q1 and like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.
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\v 12 Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will raise up the ruins of many generations;
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\q1 you will be called "The repairer of the wall," "The restorer of streets to live on."
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\v 13 Suppose that you turn back your feet from traveling on the Sabbath day, and from doing your own pleasure on my holy day.
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\q1 Suppose that you call the Sabbath a delight, and that you call the matters of Yahweh holy and honored.
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\q1 Suppose that you honor the Sabbath by leaving your own business, and by not finding your own pleasure and by not speaking your own words.
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\v 14 "Then you will find delight in Yahweh; and I will make you ride on the high places of the earth;
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\q1 I will feed you from the inheritance of Jacob your father—for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken."
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