Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Isaiah 58:5-10

Fasting like yours today
will never make your voice heard on high.
Is that the sort of fast that pleases me,
a day when a person inflicts pain on himself?
Hanging your head like a reed,
spreading out sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call fasting,
a day acceptable to Yahweh?
Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me:
to break unjust fetters,
to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break all yokes?
Is it not sharing your food with the hungry,
and sheltering the homeless poor;
if you see someone lacking clothes, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own kin?
Then your light will blaze out like the dawn
and your wound would be quickly healed over.
Saving justice for you will go ahead
and Yahweh's glory come behind you.
Then you will call and he will say, 'I am here.'
If you do away with the yoke,
the clenched fist and malicious words,
if you deprive yourself for the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
your light will rise in the darkness,
and your darkest hour will be like noon.


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