Verse 4
Isaiah 58:4
World Messianic Bible
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Behold, you fast for strife and contention,
and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֵ֣ן לְ/רִ֤יב וּ/מַצָּה֙ תָּצ֔וּמוּ וּ/לְ/הַכּ֖וֹת בְּ/אֶגְרֹ֣ף רֶ֑שַׁע לֹא תָצ֣וּמוּ כַ/יּ֔וֹם לְ/הַשְׁמִ֥יעַ בַּ/מָּר֖וֹם קוֹלְ/כֶֽם
English Translation
Behold, for strife and contention you will fast, and to strike with a wicked fist you will not fast as on this day to make your voice heard on high.
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Chapter 58 Context
1
“Cry aloud, don’t spare.
Lift up your voice like a trumpet.
Declare to my people their disobedience,...
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2
Yet they seek me daily,
and delight to know my ways.
As a nation that did righteousness,
and didn’t...
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3
‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see?
Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t no...
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4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention,
and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You don’t fas...
5
Is this the fast that I have chosen?
A day for a man to humble his soul?
Is it to bow down his head...
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6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
to release the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of t...
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7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry,
and that you bring the poor who are cast out to you...
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8
Then your light will break out as the morning,
and your healing will appear quickly;
then your right...
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9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
“If...
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10
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted soul:
then your light will ri...
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11
and Yahweh will guide you continually,
and satisfy your soul in dry places,
and make your bones stro...
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12
Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places;
you shall raise up the foundations of ma...
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13
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day;
and call the...
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14
then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh;
and I will make you to ride on the high places of the ear...
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