“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Tit 2:15Hos 8:1Act 20:26-27Act 7:51-52Ezk 3:17-21Mat 3:7-9Ezk 3:5-9Ezk 20:4
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Declare to my people their disobedience,
and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Yet they seek me daily, Tit 1:16Isa 29:13Mat 15:7-91Pe 2:1-2Jas 1:21-22Mrk 4:16-171Sa 15:21-25Ezk 33:30-33
and delight to know my ways.
As a nation that did righteousness,
and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God,
they ask of me righteous judgments.
They delight to draw near to God.
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Luk 18:9-12Mal 3:14Lev 16:29Pro 28:9Jon 3:6-8Mat 20:11-12Neh 5:7Dan 10:2-3
Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’
“Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
and oppress all your laborers.
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, 1Ki 21:9-13Isa 59:2Mat 6:16-18Pro 21:27Act 23:1-2Isa 59:6Jhn 18:28Jol 2:13-14
and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Is this the fast that I have chosen? Dan 9:3-19Zec 7:5Isa 49:8Est 4:16Isa 61:2Rom 12:22Ch 20:3Lev 16:29
A day for a man to humble his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself?
Will you call this a fast,
and an acceptable day to the LORD?
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: Neh 5:10-12Isa 58:91Ti 6:1Jer 34:8-11Mic 3:2-4
to release the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke?
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, Mat 25:35-45Ezk 18:7Luk 3:111Jn 3:17-18Pro 28:27Pro 25:21Isa 58:10Rom 12:20-21
and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house?
When you see the naked,
that you cover him;
and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Then your light will break out as the morning, Isa 52:12Jer 33:6Psa 37:6Jer 30:17Mal 4:2Psa 85:13Isa 58:10-11Act 10:35
and your healing will appear quickly;
then your righteousness shall go before you,
and the LORD’s glory will be your rear guard.
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer. Jer 29:12-13Psa 50:15Isa 65:24Mat 7:7-8Psa 91:15Isa 1:15Psa 118:5Psa 34:15-17
You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
“If you take away from among you the yoke,
finger pointing,
and speaking wickedly;
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, Pro 11:24-25Isa 42:16Isa 58:7-8Psa 37:6Job 11:17Deu 15:7-10Luk 18:22Pro 14:31
and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light will rise in darkness,
and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
and the LORD will guide you continually, Jhn 4:14Jer 31:12Psa 32:8Isa 49:10Jhn 16:13Psa 25:9Pro 11:25Sng 4:15
satisfy your soul in dry places,
and make your bones strong.
You will be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water
whose waters don’t fail.
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. Isa 61:4Amo 9:14Ezk 36:33Amo 9:11Neh 2:17Ezk 36:8-11Isa 51:3Jer 31:38
You will raise up the foundations of many generations.
You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, Jer 17:21-27Psa 92:1-2Isa 56:2-6Neh 13:15-22Rev 1:10Exo 20:8-11Psa 84:10Deu 5:12-15
from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy of the LORD honorable,
and honor it,
not doing your own ways,
nor finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own words,
then you will delight yourself in the LORD, Deu 32:13Job 22:26Isa 1:19-20Hab 3:18-19Isa 33:16Deu 33:29Isa 40:5Psa 37:4
and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth,
and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;”
for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.