58:1
clama ne cesses quasi tuba exalta vocem tuam et adnuntiapopulo meo scelera eorum et domui Iacob peccata eorum

58:2
me etenim de die in diem quaerunt et scire vias meas voluntquasi gens quae iustitiam fecerit et quae iudicium Dei sui nonreliquerit rogant me iudicia iustitiae adpropinquare Deo volunt

58:3
quare ieiunavimus et non aspexisti humiliavimus animamnostram et nescisti ecce in die ieiunii vestri inveniturvoluntas et omnes debitores vestros repetitis

58:4
ecce ad lites et contentiones ieiunatis et percutitis pugnoimpie nolite ieiunare sicut usque ad hanc diem ut audiatur inexcelso clamor vester

58:5
numquid tale est ieiunium quod elegi per diem adfligerehominem animam suam numquid contorquere quasi circulum caputsuum et saccum et cinerem sternere numquid istud vocabisieiunium et diem acceptabilem Domino

58:6
nonne hoc est magis ieiunium quod elegi dissolveconligationes impietatis solve fasciculos deprimentes dimitteeos qui confracti sunt liberos et omne onus disrumpe

58:7
frange esurienti panem tuum et egenos vagosque induc indomum tuam cum videris nudum operi eum et carnem tuam nedespexeris

58:8
tunc erumpet quasi mane lumen tuum et sanitas tua citiusorietur et anteibit faciem tuam iustitia tua et gloria Dominicolliget te

58:9
tunc invocabis et Dominus exaudiet clamabis et dicet ecceadsum si abstuleris de medio tui catenam et desieris digitumextendere et loqui quod non prodest

58:10
cum effuderis esurienti animam tuam et animam adflictamrepleveris orietur in tenebris lux tua et tenebrae tuae eruntsicut meridies

58:11
et requiem tibi dabit Dominus semper et implebitsplendoribus animam tuam et ossa tua liberabit et eris quasihortus inriguus et sicut fons aquarum cuius non deficient aquae

58:12
et aedificabuntur in te deserta saeculorum fundamentagenerationis et generationis suscitabis et vocaberisaedificator sepium avertens semitas in quietem

58:13
si averteris a sabbato pedem tuum facere voluntatem tuamin die sancto meo et vocaveris sabbatum delicatum et sanctumDomini gloriosum et glorificaveris eum dum non facis vias tuaset non invenitur voluntas tua ut loquaris sermonem

58:14
tunc delectaberis super Domino et sustollam te superaltitudines terrae et cibabo te hereditate Iacob patris tui osenim Domini locutum est

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058:001
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

058:002
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

058:003
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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.

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;

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:

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.

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.

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:

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.

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