Cry loudly; do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their transgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins.

Yet they seek Me day by day
And take delight in knowing My ways,
Like a nation that has done righteousness
And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for righteous judgments;
They take delight in approaching God.

Why have we  ¹fasted, and yet You do not see?
Why have we afflicted our soul, and yet You do not acknowledge?
Indeed, on the day of your fast you  ²find delight,
And oppress all your laborers.

Indeed, you fast for contention and strife,
And to strike with a fist of wickedness;
You do not fast, in the way you do today,
To make your voice heard on high.

Is such the fast that I choose,
The day when a man afflicts his soul?
Is it for bowing his head like a rush
And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as his bed?
Will you call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to Jehovah?

Is this not the fast that I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free,
And to break every yoke?

Is it not to divide your bread to the hungry,
And to bring the wandering poor home;
When you see the naked, to cover him,
And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
And your recovery will speedily spring forth.
And your righteousness will go before you;
The glory of Jehovah will guard you from behind.

Then you will call, and Jehovah will answer; / You will cry out, and He will say, Here I am.

If you remove the yoke from your midst, / The pointing of the finger and the speaking of wickedness,

And if you draw out your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the desires of the afflicted;
Then your light will rise in the darkness,
And your gloom will be like midday;

And Jehovah will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in the dry times,
And strengthen your bones;
And you will be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water,
Whose waters do not deceive.

And those who are of you will rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will raise up the foundations of generation upon generation;
And you will be called the repairer of the breach,
The restorer of the paths in which to dwell.

If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing whatever you please on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
That which is holy to Jehovah honorable,
And honor it, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure and speaking idle words;

Then you will have delight in Jehovah;
And I will cause you to ride upon the heights of the earth,
And I will feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father;
For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.

No, Jehovah's hand is not so short that it cannot save;
Nor is His ear so heavy that it cannot hear.

But your iniquities have become a separation
Between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His face
From you so that He does not hear.

For your hands are defiled with blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken falsehood,
Your tongue has muttered injustice.

No one sues righteously,
And no one pleads in truth;
They trust in vanity and speak lies;
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

They hatch adders' eggs
And weave the spider's web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And that which is crushed breaks forth into a viper.

Their webs will not become garments,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And an act of violence is in their palms.

Their feet run toward evil,
And they hasten to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Desolation and destruction are in their highways.

The way of peace they do not know,
And there is no justice in their course;
They have made their paths crooked;
Whoever goes on it does not know peace.

Therefore justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not overtake us;
We look eagerly for light, but, ah, darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.

We grope like blind men at the wall;
We grope like those without eyes;
We stumble at midday as we would at dusk;
Among the  ¹prospering we are like dead men.

All of us roar like bears
And moan incessantly like doves;
We look eagerly for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.

For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins respond to You against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And as for our iniquities, we know what they are:

Transgressing and denying Jehovah,
And turning away from our God;
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

And justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands far off;
For truth has stumbled in the street,
And uprightness cannot come in.

And truth is lacking, / And he who turns from evil becomes plunder.

And Jehovah saw it, and it was evil in His sight / That there was no justice.

And He saw that there was no man,
And He was appalled that there was no intercessor.
Therefore His  ¹arm accomplished salvation for Him,
And His righteousness sustained Him.

Thus He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation upon His head;
And He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing
And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

According to their dealings, so will He repay:
Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies;
To the coastlands He will repay with recompense.

So they will fear the name of Jehovah from the west,
And His glory from the rising of the sun;
When the adversary comes like a flood,
The Spirit of Jehovah will lift up a standard against him.

And a  ¹Redeemer will come to Zion,
And unto those who turn from transgression in Jacob,
Declares Jehovah.

And as for Me, this is My  ¹covenant with them, says Jehovah: My  ²Spirit which is upon you and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, nor from the mouth of your seed's seed, says Jehovah, from now and forever.

Arise! Shine! For your  ¹light has come,
And the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you.

For, behold, the darkness will cover the earth,
And deep darkness the peoples;
But Jehovah will rise upon you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.

And nations will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your  ¹rising.

Lift up your eyes around you and see:
They all gather together; they come to you;
Your sons will come from far away,
And your daughters will be carried on the hip.

Then you will see and you will beam,
And your heart will be in awe and will swell with joy,
For the abundance of the sea will be turned to you,
The wealth of the nations will come to you.

A multitude of camels will cover you,
The young camels of Midian and Ephah;
All those from Sheba will come;
They will carry gold and frankincense,
And they will bear the good news of Jehovah's praises.

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you;
The rams of Nebaioth will minister to you;
They will go up acceptably upon My altar,
And I will beautify the house of My beauty.

Who are these who fly like a cloud,
And like the doves to their dovecote?

Surely the coastlands will look eagerly for Me;
And the ships of Tarshish will come first,
To bring your children from afar,
Their silver and their gold with them,
Unto the name of Jehovah your God
And unto the Holy One of Israel; for He has beautified you.

And the children of foreigners will build up your walls,
And their kings will minister to you;
For in My wrath I struck you,
But in My favor I had compassion on you.

And your gates will be open continually;
They will not be closed day or night,
So that they may bring to you the wealth of the nations
And their kings being led in procession.

For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you will perish, and the nations will be utterly wasted.

The  ¹glory of Lebanon will come to you,
The fir tree, the pine tree, and the box tree together,
To beautify the place of My sanctuary;
And I will make the place for My feet glorious.

And the sons of those who afflicted you
Will come bowing down to you,
And all those who despised you will bow down
At the soles of your feet;
And they will call you the City of Jehovah,
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
So that no one would pass through you,
I will make you an eternal excellency,
A joy from generation to generation.

And you will suck the milk of nations
And suck the breast of kings;
Thus you will know that I, Jehovah, am your Savior
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
And instead of iron I will bring silver;
And instead of wood there will be bronze,
And instead of stones there will be iron;
And I will make peace your officers,
And righteousness your rulers.

Violence will no longer be heard in your land,
Nor desolation and destruction within your borders;
But you will call your walls Salvation,
And your gates Praise.

You will no longer have the sun for your light by day,
Nor for brightness will the moon give you light;
But Jehovah will be an eternal  ¹light to you,
And your God your  ²beauty.

Your sun will no longer go down,
Nor will your moon withdraw;
For Jehovah will be an eternal light to you,
And the days of your mourning will be ended.

Then all your people will be righteous;
They will possess the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The works of My hands,
That I may be  ¹beautified.

The least one will become a thousand,
And the smallest a strong nation.
I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.