Isaiah 58

1 to call: call out in/on/with throat not to withhold like/as trumpet to exalt voice your and to tell to/for people my transgression their and to/for house: household Jacob sin their

Give a roar from the throat! Don't hold back! Shout out like a trumpet! Announce to my people how rebellious they are; denounce to the descendants of Jacob their sins.

2 and [obj] me day: daily day: daily to seek [emph?] and knowledge way: conduct my to delight in [emph?] like/as nation which righteousness to make: do and justice: judgement God his not to leave: forsake to ask me justice righteousness nearness God to delight in [emph?]

Every day they come to me, pleased to know my ways as if they were a nation that does what is right and follow the laws of their God! They ask me to treat them right; they like to be close to their God.

3 to/for what? to fast and not to see: see to afflict soul: myself our and not to know look! in/on/with day fast your to find pleasure and all worker your to oppress

“Didn't you see that we fasted?” they ask. “Didn't you notice how we denied ourselves?” That's because whenever you fast you still do whatever you want, and you treat your workers badly.

4 look! to/for strife and strife to fast and to/for to smite in/on/with fist wickedness not to fast like/as day to/for to hear: hear in/on/with height voice your

Can't you see that when you're fasting you quarrel and argue, and end up having a vicious fist-fight? When you fast like this you can't expect your prayers to be heard on high!

5 like/as this to be fast to choose him day to afflict man soul: myself his to/for to bend like/as bulrush head his and sackcloth and ashes to lay to/for this to call: call by fast and day acceptance to/for LORD

Is this the kind of fast I want when people act out their humility by bowing their heads down like a reed and by lying around in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day the Lord appreciates?

6 not this fast to choose him to open bond wickedness to free band yoke and to send: let go to crush free and all yoke to tear

No, this is the fast I want: set free those who have been unjustly imprisoned, untie the cords of the yoke used to burden people, set free those who are oppressed, and get rid of every form of abuse.

7 not to divide to/for hungry food: bread your and afflicted wandering to come (in): bring house: home for to see: see naked and to cover him and from flesh your not to conceal

Share your food with the hungry, take the poor and homeless into your house. When you see people naked, give them clothes, and don't reject your own relatives.

8 then to break up/open like/as dawn light your and health your haste to spring and to go: went to/for face: before your righteousness your glory LORD to gather you

Then your light will shine out like the dawn, and you will be healed quickly; your salvation will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will go behind you.

9 then to call: call to and LORD to answer to cry and to say look! I if to turn aside: turn aside from midst your yoke to send: depart finger and to speak: speak evil: wickedness

Then when you call, the Lord will answer; when you cry out for help, the Lord will say, “I'm here.” If you get rid of oppression among you, if you stop pointing the finger and slandering others,

10 and to promote to/for hungry soul: myself your and soul: appetite to afflict to satisfy and to rise in/on/with darkness light your and darkness your like/as midday

if you dedicate yourselves to helping the hungry and give the poor what they need, then your light will shine out in the darkness, and your night will be like the sun at noon.

11 and to lead you LORD continually and to satisfy in/on/with scorched soul: appetite your and bone your to arm and to be like/as garden watered and like/as exit water which not to lie water his

The Lord will always lead you; he will give you all you need in you in a desolate land; he will make you strong again. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that never runs dry.

12 and to build from you desolation forever: antiquity foundation generation and generation to arise: establish and to call: call by to/for you to wall up/off breach to return: rescue path to/for to dwell

Some among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore generations-old foundations. You will be called the Repairer of the Break in the Wall, the Restorer of Life's Pathways.

13 if to return: repent from Sabbath foot your to make: do pleasure your in/on/with day holiness my and to call: call by to/for Sabbath delight to/for holy LORD to honor: honour and to honor: honour him from to make: do way: conduct your from to find pleasure your and to speak: speak word: thing

If you make sure you don't break the Sabbath by doing whatever you please on my holy day, if you say the Sabbath brings you pleasure and the Lord's day is to be honored, and if you honor it by leaving aside your own ways, by not doing whatever you please, and by avoiding everyday chatting,

14 then to delight upon LORD and to ride you upon (high place *Qk) land: country/planet and to eat you inheritance Jacob father your for lip LORD to speak: speak

then you'll find the Lord is the one who truly makes you happy, and I will give you high positions on the earth and give you what I promised to Jacob, your forefather. I, the Lord, have spoken.