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Isaiah 58
Title | Isaiah 58 |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2022 |
Authors | Parry, Donald W. |
Book Title | The Book of Isaiah: A New Translation (Preliminary Edition) |
Chapter | 58 |
Publisher | Book of Mormon Central |
City | Springville, UT |
Keywords | Bible; Isaiah (Book); Isaiah (Prophet); Old Testament |
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The True Law of the Fast (58:1–12)
The Lord to Isaiah |
58 1Cry aloud, spare not, and tell My people their transgression, 2And Me, they seek daily as if they were a nation that did righteousness They ask Me for righteous judgments; |
God’s covenant people |
3Why have we fasted, when You did not see it? |
The Lord |
Behold, in the day of your fast you found pleasure, 4Behold, you fast to quarrel and to fight you will not fast as such on this day, 5Is that the sort of fast that I choose? 6Is this not the fast that I choose: 7Is it not sharing your bread with the hungry, |
Isaiah |
8Then will your light break forth like the dawn, Your righteousness will go before you; 9Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; |
The Lord |
“Here I am.” |
Isaiah |
If you remove the yoke from among you, 10if you pour out your soul for the hungry then your light in the dark will rise as the sun, 11And the LORD will guide you continually, You will be like a watered garden, 12And some of you will rebuild ancient ruins. You will be called, |
Titles of one who properly fasts |
“The Repairer of the Broken Walls,” |
Blessings of the Sabbath (58:13–14)
The Lord |
13If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, and call the Sabbath: “Delight,” and you will honor it by not going your own ways, 14then you will take delight in the LORD, |
Isaiah |
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken. |
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