58 “^(T)Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their ^(U)wrongdoing,
And to the house of Jacob their sins.
² Yet they ^(V)seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done ^(W)righteousness
And ^(X)has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for just decisions,
They delight ^(Y)in the nearness of God.
³ ‘Why have we ^(Z)fasted and You do not see?
Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not ^[c]notice?’
Behold, on the ^(AA)day of your fast you find your desire,
And oppress all your workers.
⁴ Behold, you fast for contention and ^(AB)strife, and to strike with a wicked fist.
You do not fast like you have done today to ^(AC)make your voice heard on high!
⁵ Is it a fast like this that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it for bowing ^[d]one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out ^(AD)sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an ^(AE)acceptable day to the Lord?
⁶ Is this not the fast that I choose:
To ^(AF)release the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the ropes of the yoke,
And to ^(AG)let the oppressed go free,
And ^(AH)break every yoke?
⁷ Is it not to ^(AI)break your bread ^[e]with the hungry
And ^(AJ)bring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the ^(AK)naked, to cover him;
And not to ^(AL)hide yourself from your own flesh?
⁸ Then your ^(AM)light will break out like the dawn,
And your ^(AN)recovery will spring up quickly;
And your ^(AO)righteousness will go before you;
The glory of the ^(AP)Lord will be your rear guard.
⁹ Then you will ^(AQ)call, and the Lord will answer;
You will cry for help, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you ^(AR)remove the yoke from your midst,
The ^[f](AS)pointing of the finger and ^(AT)speaking wickedness,
¹⁰ And if you ^(AU)offer yourself to the hungry
And satisfy the ^[g]need of the afflicted,
Then your ^(AV)light will rise in darkness,
And your gloom will become like midday.
¹¹ And the ^(AW)Lord will continually guide you,
And ^(AX)satisfy your ^[h]desire in scorched places,
And ^(AY)give strength to your bones;
And you will be like a ^(AZ)watered garden,
And like a ^(BA)spring of water whose waters do not ^[i]fail.
¹² Those from among you will ^(BB)rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will ^(BC)raise up the age-old foundations;
And you will be called the repairer of the ^(BD)breach,
The restorer of the ^[j]streets in which to dwell.

¹³ “If, because of the Sabbath, you ^(BE)restrain your foot
From doing as you wish on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a ^(BF)pleasure, and the holy day of the Lord honorable,
And honor it, desisting from your ^(BG)own ways,
From seeking your own pleasure
And ^(BH)speaking your own word,
¹⁴ Then you will take ^(BI)delight in the Lord,
And I will make you ride ^(BJ)on the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
For the ^(BK)mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

59 Behold, ^(BL)the Lord’s hand is not so short
That it cannot save;
^(BM)Nor is His ear so dull
That it cannot hear.
² But your ^(BN)wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His ^[k]face from you so that He does ^(BO)not hear.
³ For your ^(BP)hands are defiled with blood,
And your fingers with wrongdoing;
Your lips have spoken ^(BQ)deceit,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
^4 (BR)No one sues righteously and ^(BS)no one pleads ^[l]honestly.
They ^(BT)trust in confusion and speak lies;
They ^(BU)conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.
⁵ They hatch vipers’ eggs and ^(BV)weave the spider’s web;
The one who eats of their eggs dies,
And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.
⁶ Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they ^(BW)cover themselves with their works;
Their ^(BX)works are works of wrongdoing,
And an ^(BY)act of violence is in their ^[m]hands.
^7 (BZ)Their feet run to evil,
And they hurry to shed innocent blood;
^(CA)Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing,
Devastation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They do not know the ^(CB)way of peace,
And there is ^(CC)no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
^(CD)Whoever walks on ^[n]them does not know peace.

⁹ Therefore ^(CE)justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not reach us;
We ^(CF)hope for light, but there is darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
¹⁰ We ^(CG)grope for the wall like people who are blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We ^(CH)stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are ^(CI)like the dead.
¹¹ All of us growl like bears,
And ^(CJ)moan sadly like doves;
We hope for ^(CK)justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.
¹² For our ^(CL)wrongful acts have multiplied before You,
And our ^(CM)sins have testified against us;
For our wrongful acts are with us,
And ^[o]we know our wrongdoings:
^13 [p]Offending and ^(CN)denying the Lord,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking ^(CO)oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and ^(CP)uttering lying words from the heart.
^14 (CQ)Justice is turned back,
And ^(CR)righteousness stands far away;
For truth has stumbled in the street,
And uprightness cannot enter.
¹⁵ Truth is lacking,
And one who turns aside from evil ^(CS)makes himself a prey.
Now the Lord saw,
And it was ^[q]displeasing in His sight ^(CT)that there was no justice.
¹⁶ And He saw that there was ^(CU)no one,
And was amazed that there was not one to intercede;
Then His ^(CV)own arm brought salvation to Him,
And His righteousness upheld Him.
¹⁷ He put on ^(CW)righteousness like a breastplate,
And a ^(CX)helmet of salvation on His head;
And He put on ^(CY)garments of vengeance for clothing
And wrapped Himself with ^(CZ)zeal as a cloak.
^18 (DA)According to their deeds, ^[r]so will He repay:
Wrath to His adversaries, ^[s]retribution to His enemies;
To the coastlands He will ^[t]deal ^[u]retribution.
¹⁹ So they will fear the name of the Lord from the ^(DB)west
And His glory from the ^(DC)rising of the sun,
For He will ^(DD)come like a ^[v]rushing stream
Which the wind of the Lord drives.
²⁰ “A ^(DE)Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those in Jacob who ^(DF)turn from wrongdoing,” declares the Lord.

71 ^(A)In You, Lord, I have taken refuge;
Let me never be put to shame.
^2 (B)In Your righteousness rescue me and save me;
^(C)Extend Your ear to me and help me.
^3 (D)Be to me a rock of ^(E)dwelling to which I may continually come;
You have given the ^(F)commandment to save me,
For You are ^(G)my rock and my fortress.
^4 (H)Save me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
From the ^[a]grasp of the wrongdoer and the ruthless,
⁵ For You are my ^(I)hope;
Lord ^[b]God, You are my ^(J)confidence from my youth.
⁶ I have ^(K)leaned on you since my birth;
You are He who ^(L)took me from my mother’s womb;
My ^(M)praise is continually ^[c]of You.