¹Call out with a full throat, do not restrain; like the horn raise your voice; and declare to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

²And day after day they seek me, and they take delight in the knowledge of my ways; like a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the justice of its God, they ask me for the justice of righteousness, they take delight in the nearness of God.

³Why have we fasted, and you have not seen; why have we humbled our being, and you do not know? Behold, on the day of your fast you find delight, and all your toilers you press hard.

⁴Behold, for strife and fighting you fast, and to strike with a wicked fist; you do not fast like this day, to make your voice heard in the height.

⁵Is a fast like this the one I choose, a day for a man to humble his being? To bow down his head like a bulrush, and spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, a day of pleasure to Yahweh?

⁶Is not this the fast I choose: to loosen the fetters of wickedness, to untie the bands of the yoke, to send the crushed out free, and to tear apart every yoke?

⁷Is it not to break your bread for the hungry, and to bring the poor, the homeless, into the house; when you see the naked, you cover him; and from your own flesh you do not hide yourself?

⁸Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will sprout quickly; and your righteousness will go before your face, the weightiness of Yahweh will bring up your rear.

⁹Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry out, and he will say, Here I am. If you remove the yoke from your midst, the stretched-out finger, and the speaking of wickedness,

¹⁰and give your being to the hungry, and satisfy the being of the afflicted, then your light will dawn in the darkness, and your gloom will be like the noon.

¹¹And Yahweh will lead you continually, and satisfy your being in the scorched regions, and brace up your bones; and you will be like a well-watered garden, and like a spring whose waters do not fail.

¹²And some of you will build the ruins of old; you will raise up the foundations of generation upon generation. And you will be called one who walls up the breach, one who restores paths to dwell in.

¹³If you turn back your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasures on my holy day, and you call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of Yahweh honored, and you honor it, refraining from doing your ways, from finding your pleasure, and from speaking a word,

¹⁴then you will take delight in Yahweh, and I will make you ride on the high places of the land, and I will feed you the inheritance of Jacob your father; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.