23:058:004 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate,
and to smite with the
fist
of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this
day, to
make
your voice to be heard on high.
23:058:005 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a
day for a man to
afflict
his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and
to
spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call
this a
fast,
and an acceptable day to the lord?
23:058:006 Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
to loose the bands of
wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
oppressed
go free, and that ye break every yoke?
23:058:007 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry,
and that thou bring
the
poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest
the
naked,
that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself
from
thine own flesh?
23:058:008 Then shall thy light break forth as the
morning, and thine
health
shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness
shall
go before thee; the glory of the lord shall be
thy
rereward.
23:058:009 Then shalt thou call, and the lord
shall answer; thou shalt
cry,
and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away
from the
midst
of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger,
and
speaking
vanity;
23:058:010 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry,
and satisfy the
afflicted
soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and
thy
darkness be as the noon day:
23:058:011 And the lord shall guide thee continually,
and satisfy thy
soul
in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt
be
like
a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose
waters
fail not.
23:058:012 And they that shall be of thee shall build
the old waste
places:
thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations;
and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in.
23:058:013 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,
from doing thy
pleasure
on my holy day; and call 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:
23:058:014 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the
lord; and I will cause
thee
to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed
thee
with
the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth
of the
lord
hath spoken it.
23:059:001 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save;
neither
his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:


