Prophecy of Isaiah – Isa 58:1-7 Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?

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Isa 58:1-7 Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?

[Study Aired April 19, 2020]

Isa 58:1  Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Isa 58:2  Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isa 58:3  Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Isa 58:4  Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isa 58:5  Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isa 58:6  Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isa 58:7  Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

The last three verses of our previous study contrasted the fate of our new man to the fate of our old man:

Isa 57:19  I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
Isa 57:20  But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isa 57:21  There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

We know that our own old man is wicked and clings to our flesh as we fight against and seek his decrease day by day. Therefore, it is to our own old man that these words are addressed:

Isa 58:1  Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

How do we “cry aloud, spare not, lift up [our] voice like a trumpet, and show [the Lord’s] people their sins”? To answer that question, it helps to know that we are those who must “read… hear… and keep the things written [in the Lord’s word]”.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

The knowledge in that verse alone will cause us to lift our voice like a trumpet and show the Lord’s people their sins. We consider that being “tormented… in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb, [and] no man can enter into the temple of God till the seven plagues of the seven angels is fulfilled” in our lives is in effect lifting up our voice like a trumpet and showing the Lord’s people their sins. It is to the Lord’s own people, our own rejected old man, these words are addressed:

Isa 58:2  Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

We all confess that the Lord is sovereign over His own creatures. We quote Ephesians 1:11 when speaking of our own trials and of world events.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

We all agree that this covid-19 virus can do nothing but what the Lord has sent it to accomplish. We confess that world leaders are placed where they are and that their actions are dictated to them by what fulfills the counsel of the Lord’s own will.

The president of the United States stated just recently that he did not want to close down the U.S. economy, but he felt he had to do so against his own will. While the world points fingers and seeks to find who caused all of this, you and I profess that we know beyond any doubt who is the real cause of all things – both the good and the evil. Yet at times even we become frustrated with what we know is a work of the Lord.

We all profess to believe the Truth of this verse of scripture:

Isa 45:6  That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Yet even we become frustrated when someone does something we know they should not be doing, and sometimes our reaction is one of frustration with what we intellectually know is of God, and it is not a reaction of love.

We all agree that the very preparations of our hearts and the words that proceed from our mouths are of the Lord, because that is what the scriptures teach:

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

However, when we are tried of the Lord by “the answer of the tongue” from someone in this world, or even from a brother or sister who we think should know better, we become frustrated with the Lord’s work.

We have all read and we agree with this verse of scripture:

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Yet when we know of, and see the blatant disregard for, the health and well being of our fellow man, whether from those in the world or those in the Lord’s house, we struggle to react as Christ would react. We struggle to show His love.

We are of the chosen few who have been given to believe that:

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Isa 30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Yet when we read these words we still tend to apply them only outwardly, and we forget these words also apply to our own flesh, and we must work out our own salvation day by day, knowing that everything in all lives of all men is a work of the Lord, both our will and our actions (Php 2:12-13).

We all take comfort in knowing the Lord will, in the end, bring all men to Himself.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Knowing all of this is true does not rid us of our flesh. We must still be very careful that we do not use this knowledge to justify turning the grace of God into lasciviousness by becoming frustrated with our fellow man, and thereby bring a reproach upon the name of Christ by preaching one thing and acting as if we do not really believe that everything is a work of His hands. Our actions really do speak much louder than our words to a world which is looking carefully for anything whereby we can be accused of being hypocrites.

Rev 12:10  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Strange as it is, we reveal our hypocrisy to those who are nearest to us first and foremost. We say that no one is responsible for their own actions because it is the Lord who, “Makes us to err from His ways and hardens our hearts.” We say we know the Lord has put “a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.”

Yet if our wife or our children, or our brother or sister in Christ who is struggling with that bridle in their jaw, does anything which we know they should not be doing, we can so easily become Job’s miserable comforters and find ourselves wondering why they continue wallowing in their weakness. The very fact we are still telling ourselves they are getting just what they deserve demonstrates that is we who are being shown that we are still nothing more than a self-righteous Job, and we ourselves are still Job’s miserable comforters as we look down on our own husband, our wife, our children, our friends, and our brothers and sisters in Christ.

“Examine yourself to see if you are in the faith” is addressed to you and to me:

2Co 13:4  For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
2Co 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2Co 13:6  But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
2Co 13:7  Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
2Co 13:8  For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2Co 13:9  For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

The next time a car cuts you off in traffic, and you are forced to slam on the brakes to keep from hitting that person, take note of how quickly you still want to place the responsibility for that person’s sins upon the shoulders of that person. It simply is not natural to calmly say to yourself, “Thank you Lord for helping me get stopped in time, and thank you for sending this trial to prepare me to rule with you.”

I still struggle to remember that the ”all things” of Ephesians 1:11  includes that careless, self-centered driver.

Examine yourself the next time you blame your children or your mate for not being the paragon of virtue you think they should be. I find myself still wondering how my own children cannot see the truths I see, and that I thought they, too, saw so clearly at one time. It is a struggle to remember that this, too, is of the Lord for my good.

The scriptures do not teach that we should never “reprove, correct nor instruct” one another, but what they do say is that we should do so with an attitude which reflects the fact that we know our spouse and our children, our friends and the person who cuts us off in traffic, and our brothers and sisters in Christ are no more responsible for their weaknesses and their sins than you or I are responsible for our own short fuse or our forgetfulness and all of our own weaknesses.

There is a time to rebuke a spouse, children, brother or sister:

2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Giving the Lord the credit He is due for both our will and our actions which perform our will pleases the Lord very much. Doing the same for our fellow man, be it our spouse, our children, our brothers and sisters in Christ, or the self-centered person who is sent by the Lord to cut us off in heavy traffic, also pleases the Lord. The Lord wants us to know that “all things” are being “worked… after the counsel of His own will” and not after the will of those He sends to try us.

Failing to credit the Lord with our trials while telling our families and friends that we believe in the sovereignty of God is the hypocritical spirit of our flesh with which our next verse is concerned. When we are short-tempered with our spouse, our children, our brothers and sisters in Christ, we are being short with Christ. When we are frustrated with anything in this life, we are not frustrated with anyone but Christ, because this is the fact of every single trial we encounter:

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Christ sends us trials to show us what we are lacking because He intends “that we should be to the praise of His glory, both now and “in the age to come”:

Mar 10:30  But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world [Greek: ‘aion’, age] to come eternal life.

Luk 18:30  Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world [Greek: ‘aion’, age] to come life everlasting.

We must never doubt that the Lord has started and will finish the work He has begun in us. Nevertheless, we must know that part of that work includes examining ourselves to see whether we are in the faith.

Part of that examination includes the story of the rich young ruler:

Luk 18:18  And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luk 18:19  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Luk 18:20  Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Luk 18:21  And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
Luk 18:22  Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Christ’s words to this ruler is the same message of our study today. We really do want to serve the Lord, but none of us are willing, at the beginning of our relationship with the Lord, to go all the way and die with Him. We just naturally take credit for our good works, and we just naturally blames others for their sins and weaknesses. They know better, so why do they keep doing things they know are wrong??? Why is that brother or sister so weak??? Why don’t they change and overcome that weakness???

Peter and all the apostles, as types of us, thought they were willing to die with Christ until the Lord’s apprehension by the Jews revealed to them just how carnal they still were:

Mat 26:33  Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
Mat 26:34  Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Mat 26:35  Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

This is a story of all of us, typified by Peter and “all the disciples”, disagreeing and contending with our Lord. It may not appear to be the same, but it is the exact same spirit in us which says to our Lord:

Isa 58:3  Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Yes, we still tend to take credit for any good we do. As Peter was so keen to remind the Lord, the twelve had indeed left all to follow Christ:

Mat 19:27  Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?

However, notice the blatant self-righteousness of Peter “and all of the disciples” both here in Matthew 19 and in Matthew 26:

Mat 26:33  Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
Mat 26:34  Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Mat 26:35  Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

We have forsaken all and followed you… Yet will I not deny thee”, was proven that very night to all be of nothing more than words of weak, boastful flesh within each of us, essentially seeking the Lord’s glory for itself in each of us.

That is the message for us in the rest of the verses we are discussing today:

Isa 58:4  Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

When we “smite” anyone physically or verbally, we are actually smiting Christ Himself:

Mat 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Mat 25:45  Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

Just hours before declaring their own self-righteous dedication to the Lord, the disciples, as types of us, were arguing among themselves which of them would be greatest in the Lord’s coming kingdom:

Mar 9:33  And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
Mar 9:34  But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
Mar 9:35  And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
Mar 9:36  And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,
Mar 9:37  Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.

Examine yourself whether you are fasting while at the same time smiting the Lord with the fist of wickedness. “You shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.”

‘Fasting’ is an act of denying oneself. The apostles all thought they had denied themselves in self-righteously proclaiming they had forsaken all to follow Christ (Mat 19:27). They also self-righteously proclaimed their own determination to die for Christ. Both are the exact opposite of truly denying oneself, as we are told in our next verse:

Isa 58:5  Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Will we seriously call what we think are our own efforts ‘self-denial’? Will we seriously declare our own righteousness “A fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?” Do we seriously believe that our self-glorification will somehow please the Lord? The answer is a resounding, “Yes, we believe that!” That is exactly what we all first believe and what we all first do before any man is made to see his own self-righteousness. The Lord alone can bring us to see ourselves as we really are and to see how we are robbing the Lord of His glory when we seek to claim anything as being of ourselves. ‘Anything’… “all things” includes even our sins and transgressions:

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Isa 30:28  And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

When Christ tells us “without me you can do nothing”, what He means is exactly what He said. He means that without Him we cannot even sin!

Joh 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Joh 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

He means that He is working all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph 4:16) and our fabled ‘free will” is just that. It is nothing more than a colossal lie:

Rom 9:16  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Rom 9:17  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Rom 9:18  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

When He hardens our hearts, we cannot see what we are doing to the Lord, but when we take credit for anything at all, including our own sins, much less our own righteousness, we are smiting Christ “with the fist of wickedness”. Even worse, when we consciously or subconsciously hold our own family member or our friends or our brothers and sisters in Christ… “the least of these, [Christ’s] brothers” (Mat 5:40) responsible for their sins and weaknesses, we are smiting Christ with the fist of wickedness, and we are robbing Him of His own glory and His sovereign power “over all things” (Eph 1:11).

Again, I am not saying there is no place for rebuking, correcting or instructing one another. That is the very function of the scriptures:

2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

We must do so remembering that we have been forgiven an unpayable debt, and we must never forget that “all things are for your sakes, and all things work together for good to them who love God and who are the called according to His purpose” means that all those who are sent to try us, including our spouses, our children, our families and friends, and even our spiritual family, are one and all being used of the Lord to judge us and to remind us of our own sins, our own self-righteousness, our own lack of patience, and of the insurmountable debt we were forgiven. That is “the fast [the Lord] has chosen”:

Isa 58:6  Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

When we hold our brothers and sisters, both natural and spiritual brothers and sisters, children and friends responsible for their own sins and weaknesses, we are placing a heavy burden upon them. We are oppressing them and placing them “under the law [placing] a yoke upon them which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear”:

Act 15:10  Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Act 15:11  But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

It is the Lord’s chastening grace which will drag our families, friends, brothers and sisters in Christ to the Lord. It is not our own self-righteous, judgmental, merciless demands that will drag anyone to the Lord. We must remember from what a great debt we ourselves were delivered by the Lord’s mercy. We just naturally forget our own really onerous, colossal and insurmountable debt which the Lord has completely forgiven simply because we begged it of Him, and we must show the same compassion toward our spouse, children, brothers and sisters, both physical and spiritual. As we do it to “the least of these [the Lord’s] brothers, we are doing it to [Him]”:

Mat 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Mat 25:45  Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

When we become frustrated with anyone, it is not that person with whom we are frustrated. Rather, it is Christ Himself with whom we are frustrated and with whom we are contending. We really do need to deny ourselves and seek “the fast which [the Lord] has chosen, which is:

Isa 58:7  Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Let it not once be named among any of us that we did not take the time to share our bread with the hungry. Let us never, ever fail to bring the poor, starving “least of these My brothers” into our house where we love them and show them the mercy we have been shown. Let it never be said that we have gone about the house of God, gossiping and uncovering the nakedness of those the Lord has forgiven of all their sins, but rather let each of us show to each other the “love [which] hides and covers a multitude of sins”:

Pro 10:12  Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Pro 17:9  He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Jas 5:20  Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

That is “the fast [the Lord] has ordained”. It is to give freely to others the same thing, the same compassion and forgiveness which was shown to us by our Lord. To fail to do so puts us in an unenviable position as the Lord made so very clear in the parable of the unforgiving servant who had himself been shown so very much mercy and was forgiven an insurmountable debt:

Mat 18:21  Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Mat 18:22  Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but [“If he repent…” Luk 17:3], Until seventy times seven.
Mat 18:23  Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
Mat 18:24  And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. [An insurmountable debt]
Mat 18:25  But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Mat 18:26  The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Mat 18:27  Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
Mat 18:28  But the same servant [that would be all of us] went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence [had a weakness… a character flaw, cut us off in traffic]: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest [Change your ways right now, in this age].
Mat 18:29  And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Mat 18:30  And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
Mat 18:31  So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
Mat 18:32  Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Mat 18:33  Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Mat 18:34  And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Mat 18:35  So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

These words are not addressed to the world which thinks some unforgiving guy out there is going to eternal torment because he refused to forgive his fellow servant. Verses 28 and 35 are written specifically to you and me because the Lord knows how He has made us to be such unappreciative, unforgiving, hypocrites, who just naturally turn our backs on those who are struggling to overcome their own faults and weaknesses and sins. He knows that we are all self-righteous, miserable comforters and self-righteous ‘Jobs’, who are repulsed by the shameful sores we see upon “the least of these, our own flesh”:

Again:

Isa 58:7  Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

That is our study for this week. We must come to see and abhor our own old man and to love “our own… flesh and bone [of]… Christ and His Christ:

Eph 5:30  For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

That is how we “keep the fast the Lord has chosen”. That is how we “hide not ourselves from our own flesh”.

Here now are the verses for our next study in which we will be shown all the benefits of diligently, vigilantly and soberly listening to, fearing and doing the things the Lord has told us to do. Here are the benefits accrued to us if we humble ourselves and “keep the fast the Lord has chosen”, being loving, patient and solicitous of the least of these our brothers whose sins are less than our own:

Isa 58:9  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 putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
Isa 58:10  And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
Isa 58:11  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.
Isa 58:12  And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: 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.
Isa 58:13  If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isa 58:14  Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.