5. When you fast, you make yourselves suffer; you bow your heads low like a blade of grass, and spread out sackcloth and ashes to lie on. Is that what you call fasting? Do you think I will be pleased with that?
6. “The kind of fasting I want is this: remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free.
7. Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear, and do not refuse to help your own relatives.
8. “Then my favour will shine on you like the morning sun, and your wounds will be quickly healed. I will always be with you to save you; my presence will protect you on every side.
9. When you pray, I will answer you. When you call to me, I will respond.“If you put an end to oppression, to every gesture of contempt, and to every evil word;