Isaiah Chapter 58

The fast that God accepts

58:1 Shout out loud, don’t hold back, raise 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 sinsחַטֹּאתָם
Transliteration: ḥaṭṭō’ṯām – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Plural Construct an offense (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering From an archery term meaning to miss the mark For more info click here.
58:2 Yet they [pretend to] seek Me day after day, and desire to know My waysדְּרָכַי
Transliteration:dᵊrāḵay ways, roads, distances, journeys, manners, paths, directions, toward For more info click here, like a nation that acts righteouslyצְדָקָה‎
Transliteration: ṣᵊḏāqâ Pronunciation: tsed-aw-kaw’ For more info click here, and hasn’t forsaken the justiceוּמִשְׁפַּט‎
Transliteration: ûmišpaṭ – and the justice – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here 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 ordinancesמִשְׁפְּטֵי‎
Transliteration: mišpᵊṭê – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here of righteousצֶדֶק‎
Transliteration:ṣeḏeq Pronunciation:tseh’-dek the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here; as if they desire the nearness 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 [asking].
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 didn’t notice? Look, on the day of your fast ya’ll serve your own interest and oppress all your workers.
58:4 Because, ya’ll fast for controversy and strife, and to strike [each other] with wicked fist: fasting like ya’ll do today won’t make your voice heard on high.
58:5 Can this be the fast I choose? a day when a man merely humbles himselfנַפְשׁוֹ
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? Can it be merely bend down his head like a bulrush, and to lying down in sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, and a day of favor to YAHWEHלַיהוָה‎
Transliteration: layhvâ, 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 will choose? to break open the shackles of wickedness, to untie the thongs of the yoke, 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 wandering poor into your house? when you see the naked, that you clothe him; and that you don’t hide yourself from your own relatives?
58:8 [Do these things] then your light will break out like the dawn, and your health will speedily spring up : and your acts of righteousnessצִדְקֶךָ‎
Transliteration: ṣiḏqeḵā – justice, righteous deeds, righteousness, what is right or just or normal, rightness, justness (of weights and measures). For more info click here will 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 will gather you.
58:9 Then will you call, and YAHWEHוַיהוָה‎
Transliteration: vayhvâ, 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 will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, Here I am. If you remove from among you the yoke,  the finger pointing, and wicked speech;
58:10 And if you offer 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 * Take a genuine interest in his plight (Radak). – From the Artscroll English Tanach 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 shine in the darkness, and your gloominess become 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 will guide you always, 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 parched places, and strengthen your bones: and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters never fail.
58:12 Ancient ruins will be rebuilt though you: and you will restore the foundations of many generations; and they will call you, repairer of broken walls, restorer of streets to live on.

Reverence of the Sabbath

58:13 If you restrain your foot because it is 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, refrain from pursuing your own interests 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 the Sabbathלַשַּׁבָּת‎
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, the Holy לִקְדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration:liqḏôš – to the sacred, to the holy, to the Holy One, to the saint, to the set apart For more info click here [day] 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, honored; and you will honor it by not doing your own waysדְּרָכֶיךָ‎
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: dᵊrāḵêḵā – way, road, path, route, distance, journey, manner For more info click here, or seeking your own needs, or discussing the forbidden:
58:14 Then you will delight 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 make you ride on the heights of the world, and provide you with the heritage of your forefather 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: 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.