¹ Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and 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 the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. ³ why have we fasted, say they, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you takes no knowledge ? See, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labours. ⁴ See, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you will not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. ⁵ Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? ⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh? ⁸ Then will your light break forward as the morning, and your health will spring forward speedily: and your righteousness will go before you; the glory of the LORD will be your rereward. ⁹ Then will you call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forward of the finger, and speaking vanity; ¹⁰ And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then will your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noonday ¹¹ And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. ¹² And those will be of you will build the old waste places: you will raise up the foundations of many generations; and you will be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. ¹³ If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and will honour him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words ¹⁴ Then will you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken [it].