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Worship God truly

58 The Lord says,

‘Shout out! Shout as loudly as you can!
    Make as much noise as a trumpet makes!
Tell my people that they have not obeyed me.
    Tell the family of Jacob about their sins.[a]
Every day my people come to worship me.
    It seems that they want to know my ways.
They seem like a nation of people
    who are doing the right things.
They seem to be obeying the law of their God.
    They ask me to decide things fairly.
Yes, they seem to want to be near to me.

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Footnotes

  1. 58:1 ‘The family of Jacob’ means God's people, Judah and Israel, who were descendants of Jacob.

True Fasting

58 “Shout it aloud,(A) do not hold back.
    Raise your voice like a trumpet.(B)
Declare to my people their rebellion(C)
    and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.(D)
For day after day they seek(E) me out;
    they seem eager to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that does what is right
    and has not forsaken(F) the commands of its God.
They ask me for just decisions
    and seem eager for God to come near(G) them.

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