58“aCallout from your throat, do not holdback;Raise your voice like a trumpet,And declare to My people their btransgressionAnd to the house of Jacob their sins.2“Yet they aseek Me day by day and findpleasure in knowing My ways,As a nation that has donebrighteousnessAnd chas not forsaken the judgment of their God.They ask Me forrighteousjudgments;They findpleasure in dthe nearness of God.3‘Why have we afasted and You do not see?Why have we afflicted our souls and You do not know?’Behold, on the bday of your fast you findyourdesire,And oppressall your workers.4“Behold, you fast for contention and aquarreling and to strike with a wickedfist.You do not fast like you dotoday to bmake your voiceheard on high.5“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to afflicthimself?Is it for bowing1one’s head like a reedAnd for spreadingoutasackcloth and ashesasabed?Will you callthis a fast, even an bacceptableday to Yahweh?
