Isaiah 58:1-5

Lexham English Bible

58 “Call with the throat; you must not keep back!
    lift up your voice like a trumpet,
and declare^[a] to my people their rebellion,
    and to the house of Jacob their sins.
² Yet^[b] they seek me day by day,
    and they desire the knowledge of my ways
like a nation that practiced^[c] righteousness,
    and had not forsaken the judgment of its God;
they ask me for righteous judgments,^[d]
    they desire the closeness of God.
³ ‘Why do we fast, and you do not see it?
    We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice it?’
Look! You find delight on the day of your fast,
    and you oppress all your workers!
⁴ Look! You fast to quarrel and strife,
    and to strike with a wicked fist.^[e]
You shall not fast as you do today,^[f]
    to make your voice heard^[g] on the height.
⁵ Is the fast I choose like this,
    a day for humankind to humiliate himself^[h]?
To bow his head like a reed,
    and make^[i] his bed on sackcloth and ashes;
you call this a fast
    and a day of pleasure to Yahweh?