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Isaiah 58

1 The office of God’s ministers. 2 The works of the hypocrites. 6 The fast of the faithful. 13 Of the true Sabbath.
1.Crye a aloud, spare not: lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shewe my people their transgression, and to the house of Jaakób, their sins.
2.Yet they bseek me daily, and will know my ways, even as a nation that did righteously, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice: they will draw near unto God, saying,
3.cWherefore have we fasted, and thou seest it not? we have punished our selves, and thou regardest it not. Behold, in the day of your fast you will seek dyour will, and require all your dettes.
4.Behold, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shal not fast as ye do to day, to make your voice be eheard above.
5.Is it such a fast, that I have chosen that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and to bow his head, as a bull rush, and to lie down in sackcloth and ashes?
6.Is not this fasting, that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to take off the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every fyoke?
7.Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that wander, unto thine house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and hide not thy self from gthine own flesh?
8.Then shal thy hlight break forth as the morning, and thine health shal grow speedily: thy irighteousness shal go before thee, and the glorie of the Lord shal embrace thee.
9.Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shal answer: thou shalt crye and he shal say, Here I am: if thou take away from the middes of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the kfinger, & wicked speaking:
10.If thou lpowre out thy soul to the hungry, and refresh the troubled soul: then shal thy light spring out in the mdarkness, and thy darkness shalbe as the noon day.
11.And the Lord shal 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 shalbe to thee, that shal build the old nwaste places: thou shalt raise up the fundacions for many generations, and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach and the restorer of the paths to dwell in.
13.If thou oturn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy wil on mine holy day, and call the Sabbath a delite, to consecrate it, as glorious to the Lord, and shalt honour him, not doing thine own waies, nor seeking thine own wil, nor speaking a vain word,
14.Then shalt thou delite in the Lord, & I will cause thee to mount upon the hie places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jaakób thy father . for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Notes

1-a.
The Lord thus speaks to the Prophet, willing him to use all diligence and severity to rebuke the hypocrites.
2-b.
They will seem to worship me and have outward holiness.
3-c.
He sets forth the malice and disdain of the hypocrites, which grudge against God, if their works be not accepted.
3-d.
Thus he convinces the hypocrites by the second table and by their duty toward their neighbour that they have neither faith nor religion.
4-e.
So long as you use contention and oppression, your fasting and prayer shall not be heard.
6-f.
That you leave off all your extortions.
7-g.
For in him you see yourself as in a glass.
8-h.
That is, the prosperous estate, wherewith God will bless you.
8-i.
The testimony of your goodness shall appear before God and man.
9-k.
Whereby is meant all manner of injury.
10-l.
That is, have compassion on their miseries.
10-m.
Your adversity shall be turned into prosperity.
12-n.
Signifying that of the Jews should come such, as should build again the ruins of Jerusalem and Judea but chiefly this is meant of the spiritual Jerusalem: whose builders were the Apostles.
13-o.
If you refrain yourself from your wicked works.