Isaiah 58:1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 58
Reasons for Judgment[a]
1 Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,
lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;
Proclaim to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.(A)
Footnotes
- 58:1–5 The prophet is commanded to condemn the formalism of the people, specifically their hypocritical fasting.
Micah 3:8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 But as for me, I am filled with power,
with the spirit of the Lord,
with justice and with might;
To declare to Jacob his crimes
and to Israel his sins.
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