Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

Isaiah 58:5
New English Translation

5 Is this really the kind of fasting I want?[a]
Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves,[b]
bowing their heads like a reed
and stretching out[c] on sackcloth and ashes?
Is this really what you call a fast,
a day that is pleasing to the Lord?

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 58:5 tn Heb “choose” (so NASB, NRSV); NAB “wish.”
  2. Isaiah 58:5 tn Heb “a day when man humbles himself.” The words “Do I want” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  3. Isaiah 58:5 tn Or “making [their] bed.”
Isaiah 58:5 in all English translations
Next
Isaiah 57
Isaiah 59
Next
dropdown
New English Translation (NET)

NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.