Isaiah 58:6-9

6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness[a] will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

Cross References 16

  • 1. Joel 2:12-14
  • 2. Nehemiah 5:10-11
  • 3. S Deuteronomy 14:29; Isaiah 61:1; Jeremiah 34:9; Amos 4:1; S Luke 4:19
  • 4. S Isaiah 9:4
  • 5. S Job 22:7; Ezekiel 18:16; Luke 3:11
  • 6. Isaiah 16:4; Hebrews 13:2
  • 7. Job 31:19-20; S Matthew 25:36
  • 8. S Genesis 29:14; Luke 10:31-32
  • 9. S Job 11:17; S Isaiah 9:2
  • 10. S Isaiah 1:5; S Isaiah 30:26
  • 11. S Isaiah 26:2
  • 12. S Exodus 14:19
  • 13. S Psalms 50:15
  • 14. S Job 8:6; S Isaiah 30:19; Daniel 9:20; S Zechariah 10:6
  • 15. S Proverbs 6:13
  • 16. Psalms 12:2; Isaiah 59:13

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "your righteous One"
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