13 Isaiah 58:2-59:0
2Yet they seek me daily and wish to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their god; they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to god.
3Why have we fasted, and you do not see it? Why have we afflicted ourselves, and you take no notice? Look, in the day of your fast you do what you wish, and you present offerings to all of your idols.
4Look, you fast for strife and quarreling, and to strike violently with the fist of wickedness; you will not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul, to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahvah?
6This is the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to cut off the bands of treachery, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke;
7to share your bread with the hungry, and to bring the stranger to your house; when you see the naked, to cover him; and to not refuse one of your own flesh.
8Then your light will break forth as the morning and your righteousness will spring forth speedily; and your righteousness will go before you; the glory of Yahvah will be your reward.
9Then you will call, and Yahvah will answer you; you will cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you remove deceit from your middle and release the prisoners and cease speaking falsehood;
10and give your bread to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then your light will shine in darkness, and your darkness be as the noonday;
11and Yahvah will guide you continually and satisfy your soul with rich food; and strengthen your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring whose water does not fail.
12And some of you will build the old waste places; you will raise up the foundations of many generations; and you will be called the repairer of the breaches, the restorer of paths to live in.
13If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasures on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of Yahvah, honorable; and will honor it, not doing on it your own ways, nor doing on it your own pleasure, nor speaking idle words;
14then you will put your trust in Yahvah; and I will cause you to ride on the high places of the land and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father; for the mouth of Yahvah has spoken it.
