{"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/web/isaiah/58","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:03:34.647Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":58,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":57,"nextChapter":59,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":14},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"'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 pleasure, and exact all your labors."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Isn't it to distribute 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?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Then your light shall 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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Then you shall call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' |If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father:| for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 58 (WEB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 58](https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/58)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/58 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}