Isaiah Chapter 58

The fast that God accepts

58:1 Shout aloud, don’t hold back, lift up your voice like a shofarכַּשּׁוֹפָר‎
Transliteration:kaššôp̄ār – like a horn, like a trumpet – like a ram’s horn – For more info click here, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here their sins.
58:2 Yet they seek me day after day, and delight to know My Waysדְּרָכַי
Transliteration:dᵊrāḵay ways, roads, distances, journeys, manners, paths, directions, toward For more info click here, like a nation that did righteousnessצְדָקָה‎
Transliteration: ṣᵊḏāqâ Pronunciation: tsed-aw-kaw’ For more info click here, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their Elohim אֱלֹהָיו
Translation:’ĕlōhāyv Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here: they ask me about the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here.
58:3 Why have we fasted, they say, and you didn’t see? Why have we afflicted our soulנַפְשֵׁנוּ
Transliteration:nap̄šēnû Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct Meaning: our soul, our self, our life, our creature, our person, our appetite, our mind, our living being, our desire, our emotion, our passion For more info click here, and you took no knowledge? Look, in the day of your fast ya’ll find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
58:4 Look, ya’ll fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: ya’ll shall not fast like ya’ll do today, to make your voice to be heard on high.
58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soulנַפְשׁוֹ
Transliteration:nap̄šô Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct Meaning: his soul, his self, his life, his creature, his person, his appetite, his mind, his living being, his desire, his emotion, his passion For more info click here? is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here?
58:6 Isn’t 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 ya’ll break every yoke?
58:7 Isn’t it to divide your bread with the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are homeless into your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you don’t hide yourself from your own kin?
58:8 Then shall your light break out like the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here shall be your rereward.
58:9 Then shall you call, and YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from among you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking vanity;
58:10 And if you draw out your soulנַפְשֶׁךָ
Transliteration:nap̄šeḵā – Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct- Meaning: your soul, your self, your life, your creature, your person, your appetite, your mind, your living being, your desire, your emotion, your passion For more info click here to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soulוְנֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration:vᵊnep̄eš – Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct Meaning: and the soul, and the self, and the life, and the creature, and the person, and the appetite, and the mind, and the living being, and the desire, and the emotion, and the passion For more info click here; then your light will rise in the darkness, and your gloominess be like noon:
58:11 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soulנַפְשֶׁךָ
Pronunciation: nap̄šeḵā – Noun: Common Both Singular Construct Meaning: your soul, your self, your life, your creature, your person, your appetite, your mind, your living being, your desire, your emotion, your passion For more info click here in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
58:12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Reverence of the Sabbath


58:13 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbathמִשַּׁבָּת‎
Translated:miššabāṯ (‘rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here, from doing your pleasure on My Holyקָדְשִׁי‎
Transliteration:qāḏšî – a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity:—consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (× most) holy (× day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary. For more info click here day; and call to Sabbathשַׁבָּת‎
romanized: laššabāṯ, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here a delight, to the Holy Oneלִקְדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration:liqḏôš – to the sacred, to the holy, to the Holy One, to the saint, to the set apart For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
58:14 Then shall you delight yourself in YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here your father: because the mouth of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has spoken it.

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