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to offer sacrifice. 8 Behinde the doores also and sion, and to the house of Iaakob, their sinnes.
postes hast thou set vp thy remembrance: for 2 Yet they seeke me dayly, and will knowe my
thou hast discouered thy selfe to another then wayes, euen as a nation that did righteously,
me, and wentest vp, and diddest enlarge thy bed, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God:
and make a couenant betweene thee and them, they aske of me the ordinances of iustice: they
and louedst their bed in euery place where thou wil drawe neere vnto God, saying, 3 Wherefore
sawest it. Thou wentest to the Kings with oyle, haue we fasted, and thou seest it not? we haue
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and diddest increase thine oyntments and sende punished our selues, and thou regardest it not.
thy messengers farre off, and diddest humble Beholde, in the day of your fast you will seeke
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thy selfe vnto hell. 10 Thou weariedst thy selfe your will, and require all your dettes. Beholde,
in thy manifolde iourneys, yet saydest thou not, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with the
There is no hope: thou hast found life by thine fist of wickednesse: ye shall not fast as ye doe
hand, therefore thou wast not grieued. 11 And to day, to make your voyce to be heard aboue.
whome diddest thou reuerence or feare, seeing 5 Is it such a fast that I haue chosen, that a man
thou hast lyed vnto me, and hast not remembred should afflict his soule for a day, and to bowe
me, neither set thy minde thereon? is it not downe his head, as a bull rush, and to lie downe in
because I holde my peace, and that of long time? sackecloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fasting,
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therefore thou fearest not me. 12 I will declare thy or an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the
righteousnes and thy workes, and they shall not fasting, that I haue chosen, to loose the bandes
profite thee. 13 When thou cryest, let them that of wickednes, to take off the heauie burdens, and
to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye breake
thou hast gathered together deliuer thee: but euery yoke? 7 Is it not to deale thy bread to
the winde shall take them all away: vanitie shall the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that
pull them away: but he that trusteth in me, shall wander, vnto thine house? when thou seest the
inherite the lande, and shall possesse mine holy naked, thatthoucouerhim, andhidenotthyselfe
Mountaine. 14 And he shall say, Cast vp, cast vp: from thine owne flesh? 8 Then shall thy light
prepare the way: take vp the stumbling blocks breake foorth as the morning, and thine health
out of the way of my people. 15 For thus sayth shall grow speedily: thy righteousnes shall goe
he that is hie and excellent, he that inhabiteth before thee, and the glorie of the Lord shall
the eternitie, whose Name is the Holy one, I dwell embracethee. Thenshalt thou call, and the Lord
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in the high and holy place: with him also that shall answere: thou shalt cry and hee shall say,
is of a contrite and humble spirite to reuiue the Here I am: if thou take away from the mids of thee
spirite of the humble, and to giue life to them that the yoke, the putting foorth of the finger, and
are of a contrite heart. 16 For I will not contende wicked speaking: 10 If thou powre out thy soule
for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth, for the to the hungrie, and refresh the troubled soule:
spirite should fayle before me: and I haue made then shall thy light spring out in the darkenes,
the breath. 17 For his wicked couetousnesse I am and thy darkenes shalbe as the noone day. 11 And
angry with him, and haue smitten him: I hid mee the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfie
and was angry, yet he went away, and turned thy soule in drought, and make fat thy bones:
after the way of his owne heart. 18 I haue seene and thou shalt be like a watred garden, and like
his wayes, and wil heale him: I wil leade him also, a spring of water, whose waters faile not. 12 And
and restore comfort vnto him, and to those that
lament him. 19 I create the fruite of the lips, to they shalbe of thee, that shall builde the olde
be peace: peace vnto them that are farre off, and waste places: thou shalt rayse vp the foundations
to them that are neere, sayth the Lord: for I will for many generations, and thou shalt be called
heale him. 20 But the wicked are like the raging the repairer of the breach and the restorer of
sea, that can not rest, whose waters cast vp myre the pathes to dwell in. 13 If thou turne away thy
and dirt. 21 There is no peace, sayth my God, to foote from the Sabbath, from doing thy will on
the wicked. mine holy day, and call the Sabbath a delite, to
consecrate it, as glorious to the Lord, and shalt
58 honour him, not doing thine owne wayes, nor
1 Crye aloude, spare not: lift vp thy voyce like seeking thine owne will, nor speaking a vaine
a trumpet, and shewe my people their transgres- word, 14 Then shalt thou delite in the Lord, and I