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Rh :They ask of Me righteous ordinances,
 * They delight to draw near unto God.


 * 'Wherefore have we fasted, and Thou seest not?
 * Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge?'—
 * Behold, in the day of your fast ye pursue your business,
 * And exact all your labours.
 * Behold, ye fast for strife and contention,
 * And to smite with the fist of wickedness;
 * Ye fast not this day
 * So as to make your voice to be heard on high.
 * Is such the fast that I have chosen?
 * The day for a man to afflict his soul?
 * Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
 * And to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
 * Wilt thou call this a fast,
 * And an acceptable day to the ?
 * Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
 * To loose the fetters of wickedness,
 * To undo the bands of the yoke,
 * And to let the oppressed go free,
 * And that ye break every yoke?
 * Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry,
 * And that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?
 * When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him,
 * And that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
 * Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
 * And thy healing shall spring forth speedily;
 * And thy righteousness shall go before thee,
 * The glory of the shall be thy rearward.
 * Then shalt thou call, and the will answer;
 * Thou shalt cry, and He will say: 'Here I am.'
 * If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke,
 * The putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedness;
 * And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry,
 * And satisfy the afflicted soul;
 * Then shall thy light rise in darkness,
 * And thy gloom be as the noonday;
 * And the will guide thee continually,
 * And satisfy thy soul in drought,
 * And make strong thy bones;
 * And thou shalt be like a watered garden,
 * And like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
 * And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places,
 * Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;
 * And thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach,
 * The restorer of paths to dwell in.
 * If thou turn away thy foot because of the sabbath,
 * From pursuing thy business on My holy day;
 * And call the sabbath a delight,
 * And the holy of the honourable;
 * And shalt honour it, not doing thy wonted ways,
 * Nor pursuing thy business, nor speaking thereof;
 * Then shalt thou delight thyself in the ,