4aIndeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as youdo this day, To make your voice heard on high.
5 Is ait a fast that I have chosen, bA day for a man to afflict his soul? Isit to bow down his head like a bulrush, And cto spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To aloose the bonds of wickedness, bTo undo the1 heavy burdens, cTo let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?
7Isit not ato share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are1 cast out; bWhen you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from cyour own flesh?
8aThen your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; bThe glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9 The1n you shall call, and the Lord will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger, and aspeaking wickedness,
loose . . . bands of wickedness—that is, to dissolve every tie wherewith one has unjustly bound his fellow men (Leviticus 25:49, etc.). Servitude, a fraudulent contract, etc.
undo . . . heavy burdens—Hebrew, "loose the bands of the yoke."
oppressed—literally, "the broken." The expression, "to let go free," implies that those "broken" with the yoke of slavery, are meant (Nehemiah 5:10-12; Jeremiah 34:9-11, Jeremiah 34:14, Jeremiah 34:16). JEROME interprets it, broken with poverty; bankrupt.
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