1 Cry out aloud for all you are worth; raise your voice like a trumpet blast; tell my people of their offenses, Jacob's family of their sins.
2 Is it true that they seek me day after day, longing to know my ways, as a people that does what is right and has not forsaken the word of its God? They want to know the just laws and not to drift away from their God.
3 "Why are we fasting," they complain, "and you do not even see it? We are doing penance and you never notice it." Look, on your fast days you push your trade and you oppress your laborers.
4 Yes, you fast but end up quarreling, striking each other with wicked blows. Fasting as you do will not make your voice heard on high.
5 Is that the kind of fast that pleases me, just a day for a man to humble himself? Is fasting merely bowing down one's head, and making use of sackcloth and ashes? Would you call that fasting, a day acceptable to Yahweh?
6 See the fast that pleases me: breaking the fetters of injustice and unfastening the thongs of the yoke, setting the oppressed free and breaking every yoke.
7 Fast by sharing your food with the hungry, bring to your house the homeless, clothe the man you see naked and do not turn away from your own kin.
8 Then will your light break forth as the dawn and your healing come in a flash. Your righteousness will be your vanguard, the Glory of Yahweh your rearguard.
9 Then you will call and Yahweh will answer, you will cry and he will say, I am here. If you remove from your midst the yoke, the clenched fist and the wicked word,
10 if you share your food with the hungry and give relief to the oppressed, then your light will rise in the dark, your night will be like noon.
11 Yahweh will guide you always and give you relief in desert places. He will strengthen your bones; he will make you as a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never fail.
12 Your ancient ruins will be rebuilt, the age-old foundations will be raised. You will be called the Breach-mender, and the Restorer of ruined houses.
13 If you stop profaning the sabbath and doing as you please on the holy day, if you call the sabbath a day of delight and keep sacred Yahweh's holy day, if you honor it by not going your own way, not doing as you please and not speaking with malice,
14 then you will find happiness in Yahweh, over the heights you will ride triumphantly, on the inheritance of your father Jacob you will feast joyfully. The mouth of Yahweh has spoken.
Versículos relacionados com Isaiah, 58:
Isaiah 58 is a chapter that deals with true religiosity and fasting that pleases God. The people of Israel were performing their religious rituals, but they were not practicing justice and mercy, which was God's true objective. Therefore, the prophet Isaiah urges the people to live a life of justice and love for neighbor, and to repent of their sins. The verses below are related to the topics addressed in Isaiah 58:
Proverbs 21:3: "Doing justice and judging with righteousness is more acceptable to the Lord than offering sacrifices." This verse shows that the Lord values justice more than religious rituals.
Matthew 9:13: "But go and learned what it means: mercy I want, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." Jesus quotes a passage from the Old Testament to emphasize the importance of mercy rather than sacrifices.
James 1:27: "The pure and immaculate religion before our God and the Father is this: to visit the orphans and the widows in their afflictions and to be exempt from the corruption of the world." This verse reinforces the importance of the practice of justice and mercy.
1 John 3:17-18: "Now he who has resources of this world and coming to his brother to suffer need, and close his heart, how can the love of God remain in him? language, but for works and in truth. " This verse urges Christians to show love for their brothers through their actions.
Matthew 25:40: "And the king shall answer them, Terde, I say unto you, whenever you did to one of my brothers, even of the little ones you have done to me." In this verse, Jesus teaches that when we help others, we are serving Him.
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