Add parallel Print Page Options

Is it not to break your bread for the hungry?
    You must bring home[a] the poor, the homeless.
When you see the naked, you must cover him,
    and you must not hide yourself from your relatives.[b]
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing shall grow quickly.
And your salvation shall go before you;
    the glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer.
    You shall cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am!’
If you remove from among you the yoke,
    the finger-pointing[c] and evil speech,[d]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 58:7 Literally “a house”
  2. Isaiah 58:7 Literally “flesh”
  3. Isaiah 58:9 Literally “stretching out of the finger”
  4. Isaiah 58:9 Literally “the speaking of evil”

Is it not to share your food with the hungry(A)
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter(B)
when you see the naked, to clothe(C) them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?(D)
Then your light will break forth like the dawn,(E)
    and your healing(F) will quickly appear;
then your righteousness[a](G) will go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.(H)
Then you will call,(I) and the Lord will answer;(J)
    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(K) and malicious talk,(L)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 58:8 Or your righteous One