Isaiah 58:1-5
American Standard Version
58 Cry [a]aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 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 righteous judgments; they delight to draw near unto God. 3 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 your own pleasure, and [b]exact all your labors. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: [c]ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Isaiah 58:1 Hebrew with the throat.
- Isaiah 58:3 Or, oppress all your laborers
- Isaiah 58:4 Or, ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make etc.
Isaiah 58:1-5
Lexham English Bible
True Fasts and Sabbaths
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?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:1 Or “announce”
- Isaiah 58:2 Or “And”
- Isaiah 58:2 Literally “did”
- Isaiah 58:2 Literally “judgments of righteousness”
- Isaiah 58:4 Literally “fist of wickedness”
- Isaiah 58:4 Literally “the day”
- Isaiah 58:4 Literally “cause to hear your voice”
- Isaiah 58:5 Literally “his soul”
- Isaiah 58:5 Literally “he makes”
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