4. You quarrel and brawl, and then you fast;you hit each other violently with your fists.You shouldn’t fast as you are doing todayif you want to make your voice heard on high.
5. Is this the kind of fast I choose,a day of self-affliction,of bending one’s head like a reedand of lying down in mourning clothing and ashes?Is this what you call a fast,a day acceptable to the Lord?
6. Isn’t this the fast I choose:releasing wicked restraints, untying the ropes of a yoke,setting free the mistreated,and breaking every yoke?
7. Isn’t it sharing your bread with the hungryand bringing the homeless poor into your house,covering the naked when you see them,and not hiding from your own family?
8. Then your light will break out like the dawn,and you will be healed quickly.Your own righteousness will walk before you,and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard.