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Isaiah 58 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
3 Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not known? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debters.
4 Behold you fast to debates and contentions, and strike with the fist impiously. Do not fast as until this day, that your cry may be heard on high.
5 Is this such a fast, as I have chosen: for a man by the day to afflict his soul? Is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to spread sack-cloth and ashes? Wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?
6 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? Dissolve the bands of impiety, loose the bundles that overload, dismiss them free that are broken, and break in sunder every burden.
7 Break thy bread to the hungry & the needy, & harbourless bring in into thy house: when thou shalt see the naked cover him, and dispise not thy flesh.
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