“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please^(G)
    and exploit all your workers.
⁴ Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,^(H)
    and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
    and expect your voice to be heard^(I) on high.
⁵ Is this the kind of fast^(J) I have chosen,
    only a day for people to humble^(K) themselves?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed^(L)
    and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?^(M)
Is that what you call a fast,
    a day acceptable to the Lord?

⁶ “Is not this the kind of fasting^(N) I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice^(O)
    and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed^(P) free
    and break every yoke?^(Q)
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry^(R)
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter^(S)—
when you see the naked, to clothe^(T) them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?^(U)
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,^(V)
    and your healing^(W) will quickly appear;
then your righteousness^[a](X) will go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.^(Y)
9 Then you will call,^(Z) and the Lord will answer;^(AA)
    you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
    with the pointing finger^(AB) and malicious talk,^(AC)
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
    and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,^(AD)
then your light^(AE) will rise in the darkness,
    and your night will become like the noonday.^(AF)
11 The Lord will guide^(AG) you always;
    he will satisfy your needs^(AH) in a sun-scorched land^(AI)
    and will strengthen^(AJ) your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,^(AK)
    like a spring^(AL) whose waters never fail.