{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/58","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T23:35:51.533Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":58,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":57,"nextChapter":59,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":14},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that doeth righteousness, and hath not forsaken the ordinance of their God; they ask of me the ordinances of righteousness, they take delight in approaching to God:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not; have afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find what pleaseth you, and exact all your labours."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to cause your voice to be heard on high."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Is such the fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul, that he should bow down his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to Jehovah?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearguard."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and the unjust speech,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as midday;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a water-spring, whose waters deceive not."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And they that come of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations that have remained from generation to generation; and thou shalt be called, Repairer of the breaches, restorer of frequented paths."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If thou turn back thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of Jehovah, honourable; and thou honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking idle words;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah, and I will cause thee to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 58 (DBT)","markdown":"[Isaiah 58](https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/58)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/58 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}