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Isaiah 58:5-12

<p>5 “Is it a fast like this which I choose, <b>a day for a man to humble himself?</b> &#160;Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed &#160;And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? &#160;Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD?

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6 <b>Is not this the fast that I have chosen?</b> to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye <b>break every yoke? * *</b>

7 Is it not to <b>deal thy bread to the hungry</b>, and that thou <b>bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?</b> when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou <b>hide not thyself from thine own flesh? *</b>

8 ¶Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and <b>thy righteousness shall go before thee</b>; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward. *

9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the <b>putting forth of the finger, </b>and speaking vanity;

10 And if thou <b>draw out thy soul to the hungry</b>, and <b>satisfy the afflicted sou</b>l; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. * *

12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:<b> thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.</b></p>