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Isaiah 58:3-6
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They say, `Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?` `Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your labourers.
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'Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wrongness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high.
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'Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his being? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to YHWH?
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'Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?
| Isaiah 58:3-6 |