21NOT PEACE HE SAYS GOD MY [BELONGS] TO <THE> WICKED [PEOPLE] 21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
1CALL OUT WITH A THROAT MAY NOT YOU REFRAIN LIKE <THE> TRUMPET RAISE VOICE YOUR AND DECLARE TO PEOPLE MY TRANSGRESSION THEIR AND TO [THE] HOUSE OF JACOB SINS THEIR True Fasts and Sabbaths 1“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
2AND <OBJ.> ME DAY DAY THEY SEEK! AND [THE] KNOWLEDGE OF WAYS MY THEY DESIRE! LIKE A NATION WHICH RIGHTEOUSNESS IT HAS DONE AND [THE] JUDGMENT OF GOD ITS NOT IT HAS FORSAKEN THEY ASK ME JUDGMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS [THE] APPROACH OF GOD THEY DESIRE! 2For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
3<TO> WHY? HAVE WE FASTED AND NOT YOU HAVE SEEN HAVE WE HUMBLED? SELF OUR AND NOT YOU KNOW THERE! ON [THE] DAY OF FASTING YOUR YOU FIND PLEASURE AND ALL LABORERS YOUR YOU DRIVE HARD 3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
4THERE! FOR STRIFE AND CONTENTION YOU FAST AND TO STRIKE WITH A FIST OF WICKEDNESS NOT YOU FAST LIKE <THE> THIS DAY TO MAKE HEARD IN THE HEIGHT[S] VOICE YOUR 4You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
5¿ LIKE THIS IS IT [THE] FAST [WHICH] I CHOOSE IT A DAY TO HUMBLE ANYONE SELF HIS ¿ TO BEND DOWN LIKE A BULRUSH HEAD HIS AND SACKCLOTH AND ASH[ES] HE SPREADS AS A BED ¿ <THE> <TO> THIS DO YOU CALL A FAST AND A DAY OF ACCEPTANCE TO YAHWEH 5Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
6¿ NOT [IS] THIS [THE] FAST [WHICH] I CHOOSE IT TO LOOSEN [THE] BONDS OF WICKEDNESS TO UNFASTEN [THE] BINDINGS OF [THE] YOKE-BAR AND TO LET GO CRUSHED [PEOPLE] FREE [PEOPLE] AND EVERY YOKE-BAR YOU WILL TEAR APART 6Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
7¿ NOT [IS IT] TO BREAK FOR THE HUNGRY [PERSON] BREAD YOUR AND POOR [PEOPLE] HOMELESS PEOPLE YOU WILL BRING A HOUSE IF YOU WILL SEE [THE] NAKED AND YOU WILL COVER HIM AND FROM OWN FLESH YOUR NOT YOU WILL HIDE YOURSELF 7Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8THEN IT WILL BREAK FORTH LIKE THE DAWN LIGHT YOUR AND HEALING YOUR QUICKLY IT WILL SPRING UP AND IT WILL GO <TO> BEFORE YOU RIGHTEOUSNESS YOUR [THE] GLORY OF YAHWEH IT WILL BE REARGUARD YOUR 8Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
9THEN YOU WILL CALL AND YAHWEH HE WILL ANSWER YOU WILL CRY FOR HELP AND HE MAY SAY HERE [AM] I IF YOU WILL REMOVE FROM AMONG YOU [THE] YOKE-BAR [THE] STRETCHING OUT OF A FINGER AND [THE] SPEAKING OF WICKEDNESS 9Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
10AND YOU WILL OFFER TO THE HUNGRY [PERSON] SELF YOUR AND [THE] APPETITE OF [THE] AFFLICTED YOU WILL SATISFY AND IT WILL RISE IN THE DARKNESS LIGHT YOUR AND GLOOM YOUR [WILL BE] LIKE THE NOON<S> 10and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
11AND HE WILL LEAD YOU YAHWEH CONTINUALLY AND HE WILL SATISFY IN ARID REGIONS APPETITE YOUR AND BONES YOUR HE WILL STRENGTHEN AND YOU WILL BE LIKE A GARDEN WATERED AND LIKE A SPRING OF WATERS WHICH NOT THEY WILL FAIL WATERS ITS 11The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
12AND THEY WILL REBUILD SOME OF YOU [THE] RUINS OF ANTIQUITY [THE] FOUNDATIONS OF A GENERATION AND A GENERATION YOU WILL RAISE UP AND IT WILL BE CALLED TO YOU [ONE WHO] WALLS UP A BREACH [ONE WHO] RESTORES PATHS TO DWELL IN 12Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
13IF YOU WILL TURN BACK FROM [THE] SABBATH FOOT YOUR TO DO PLEASURES YOUR ON [THE] DAY OF HOLINESS MY AND YOU WILL CALL <TO> THE SABBATH A DELIGHT <TO> [THE] HOLY [DAY] OF YAHWEH HONORABLE AND YOU WILL HONOR IT FROM DOING OWN WAYS YOUR FROM FINDING PLEASURE YOUR AND TO SPEAK A WORD 13If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
14THEN YOU WILL TAKE DELIGHT ON YAHWEH AND I WILL MAKE RIDE YOU ON [THE] HIGH PLACES OF [THE] LAND AND I WILL FEED YOU [THE] INHERITANCE OF JACOB ANCESTOR YOUR FOR [THE] MOUTH OF YAHWEH IT HAS SPOKEN 14then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.