“In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
And ^[b]exploit all your laborers.
^4 (D)Indeed you fast for strife and debate,
And to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You will not fast as you do this day,
To make your voice heard on high.
⁵ Is ^(E)it a fast that I have chosen,
^(F)A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
And ^(G)to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Would you call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to the Lord?

⁶ “Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To ^(H)loose the bonds of wickedness,
^(I)To undo the ^[c]heavy burdens,
^(J)To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
⁷ Is it not ^(K)to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are ^[d]cast out;
^(L)When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from ^(M)your own flesh?
^8 (N)Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
^(O)The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
⁹ Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’

“If you take away the yoke from your midst,
The ^[e]pointing of the finger, and ^(P)speaking wickedness,
¹⁰ If you extend your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the afflicted soul,
Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
And your ^[f]darkness shall be as the noonday.
¹¹ The Lord will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
¹² Those from among you
^(Q)Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of ^[g]Streets to Dwell In.

¹³ “If ^(R)you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
^14 (S)Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;
And I will cause you to ^(T)ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
^(U)The mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

³ But You, O Lord, ^(D)know me;
You have seen me,
And You have ^(E)tested my heart toward You.
Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
And prepare them for ^(F)the day of slaughter.
⁴ How long will ^(G)the land mourn,
And the herbs of every field wither?
^(H)The beasts and birds are consumed,
^(I)For the wickedness of those who dwell there,
Because they said, “He will not see our final end.”

⁷ “I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.
⁸ My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest;
It cries out against Me;
Therefore I have ^(M)hated it.
⁹ My ^[e]heritage is to Me like a speckled vulture;
The vultures all around are against her.
Come, assemble all the beasts of the field,
^(N)Bring them to devour!

¹⁰ “Many ^(O)rulers^[f] have destroyed ^(P)My vineyard,
They have ^(Q)trodden My portion underfoot;
They have made My ^[g]pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
¹¹ They have made it ^(R)desolate;
Desolate, it mourns to Me;
The whole land is made desolate,
Because ^(S)no one takes it to heart.
¹² The plunderers have come
On all the desolate heights in the wilderness,
For the sword of the Lord shall devour
From one end of the land to the other end of the land;
No flesh shall have peace.
^13 (T)They have sown wheat but reaped thorns;
They have ^[h]put themselves to pain but do not profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”