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Is it not to break your bread for the hungry?
    You must bring home[a] the poor, the homeless.
When you see the naked, you must cover him,
    and you must not hide yourself from your relatives.[b]
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing shall grow quickly.
And your salvation shall go before you;
    the glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer.
    You shall cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am!’
If you remove from among you the yoke,
    the finger-pointing[c] and evil speech,[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 58:7 Literally “a house”
  2. Isaiah 58:7 Literally “flesh”
  3. Isaiah 58:9 Literally “stretching out of the finger”
  4. Isaiah 58:9 Literally “the speaking of evil”