1. "Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; tell My people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins.  (Mic. 3:8)
2. Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their God.  They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching God.
3. 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and You have not seen?  (Mal. 3:13-18)  Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?'  (Lev. 16:29;   Lev. 23:27)
   "In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your labourers,
9. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, 'Here I am.'
   "If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
10. If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday.
11. The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring or water, whose waters do not fail.  (Job 22:27;   Ps. 48:14)
12. Those from among 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 Streets to Dwell In.  (Is. 60:4)
13. "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honourable, and shall honour Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,  (Gen. 2:3;   Is. 56:2-6)
14. Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord; and I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, (Job 22:26;   Deut. 32:13;   Deut. 33:29) and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.  (Ps. 37:4)
    The mouth of the Lord has spoken."  (Is. 1:20;   Is. 40:5)

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