and shall inherit my holy mountain.
057:014 He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up
the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
057:015 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place,
with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart
of the contrite.
057:016 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry;
for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who
I have made.
057:017 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him;
I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding
in the way of his heart.
057:018 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,
and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
057:019 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far
off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him.
057:020 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest,
and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
057:021 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
058:001 Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet,
and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house
of Jacob their sins.
058:002 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways:
as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake
the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
058:003 Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why]
have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure,
and exact all your labors.
058:004 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike
with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as
to make your voice to be heard on high.
058:005 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man
to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call
this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
058:006 Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds
of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let
the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
058:007 Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring
the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked,
that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from
your own flesh?
058:008 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing
shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go
before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.
058:009 Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry,
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