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Chapter 58
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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression, and the house
of Jacob their sins.
Bible Study Questions |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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? |
7
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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? |
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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. |
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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; |
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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: |
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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. |
12
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
