{"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/kjv/isaiah/58","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:54:50.407Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Wherefore have we fasted, <i>say they</i>, and thou seest not? <i>wherefore</i> have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as <i>ye do this</i> day, to make your voice to be heard on high."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? <i>is it</i> to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes <i>under him</i>? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"<i>Is</i> not 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 ye break every yoke?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"<i>Is it</i> not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? 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 morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I <i>am</i>. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And <i>if</i> thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness <i>be</i> as the noonday:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And <i>they that shall be</i> of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, <i>from</i> doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking <i>thine own</i> words:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken <i>it</i>."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 58 (KJV)","markdown":"[Isaiah 58](https://primebible.com/kjv/isaiah/58)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/isaiah/58 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}