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| 1 Cry aloud, do not spare, Like a horn, lift high thy voice,–And declare, To my people, their transgression, and, To the house of Jacob, their sins. |
Cry aloud – Point out what the Scriptures have to say. R5630:5
Attacking errors of doctrine unsparingly, though in kindly terms. HG558:2
It is not now necessary or proper to cry aloud in the streets, or at the churches. R5631:3
Like a trumpet – Sound the trumpet of truth. R1476:5
Shew my people – Point out to Christendom of today their error as we have opportunity. R5630:3, R1158:1
But it would not be very well to go about berating them or anybody. R5630:3
These faithful reprovers are generally abused as enemies. R577:4; CR351:5
Their transgression – Their attitude calls for sympathy, pity and tender help over their misunderstandings rather than for abuse and cutting and lashing sarcasm. R1158:1
Calling attention to the fact that there is hypocrisy practiced in the name of religion. R5631:3
House of Jacob – A distinguishing term referring exclusively to the Jews, God's ancient covenant people. R5630:3
Point out to the Jews the reason w they are in their present cast off condition. R5630:3
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| 2 Yet, me–day by day, do they seek, And, in the knowledge of my ways, they delight,–Like a nation that had done, righteousness, And, the justice of their God, had not forsaken, They ask of me the just regulations, In approaching God, they delight. |
Seek me daily – Apparently, but actually there is great zeal for the traditions of men. R5630:6
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| 3 Wherefore have we Fasted and thou hast not seen? Humbled our soul, and thou wouldst take no note? Lo! in the day of your fast, ye take pleasure, But all your toilers, ye drive on! |
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| 4 Lo! for strife and contention, ye fast, And to smite with the fist of lawlessness,–Ye shall not fast as today, To cause to be heard, on high, your voice! |
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| 5 Like this, shall the fast be, that I choose, A day for the son of earth to humble his soul? Is it to bow down, as a rush, his head, And, sackcloth and ashes, to spread out? Is it, this, thou wilt call a fast, Or a day of acceptance with Yahweh? |
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| 6 Is not, this, the fast that I must ever choose–To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness, To unloose the bands of the yoke,–and, To let the crushed go free, and, That, every yoke, ye tear off? |
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| 7 Is it not to break, unto the hungry, thy bread, And, the thrust-out oppressed, that thou bring into a home,–When thou seest one naked, that thou cover him, And, from thine own flesh, shalt not hide thyself? |
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| 8 Then, shall break forth, as the dawn, thy light, And, thy new flesh, shall, speedily, grow,–Then shall go, before thee, thy righteousness, The glory of Yahweh, shall bring up thy rear: |
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| 9 Then, shalt thou, Call, and, Yahweh, will answer, Cry out, and he will say, Behold me! If thou remove, out of thy midst, The yoke, The pointing of the finger, and, The speaking of iniquity; |
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| 10 And shalt let thine own soul, go out to the hungry, And, the soul of the oppressed, thou shalt satisfy, Then shall break forth, in darkness, thy light, And, thy thick darkness, [become] as the splendour of noon; |
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| 11 Then will Yahweh guide, thee continually, And will satisfy, [even] in scorched regions, thine own soul, Yea, thy very bones, will he invigorate,–So shall thou become, like a garden well–watered, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not deceive; |
Guide thee continually – Ask him to guide you; and, with no will of your own, no choice as to the pathway, trusting everything to God, silently waiting to hear his voice, it will be given you to know his will. R590:5*
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| 12 And they who come of thee, shall build the wastes of age-past times, And, as for the foundations of generation after generation, thou shalt rear them up,–So shalt thou be called–A Repairer of broken walls, A Restorer of paths leading home. |
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| 13 If thou turn back, From the sabbath, thy foot, From doing thine own pleasure, on my holy, day,–And shall call–The sabbath, An exquisite delight, The holy [day] of Yahweh, A day to be honoured, And so shalt honour it, rather–Than do thine own ways, Than take thine own pleasure, or, Than speak [thine own] word, |
Doing thy pleasure – Christian sabbath keeping is to refrain from doing our own ways, finding our own pleasures and speaking our own words--every day. HG583:5*
Thine own ways – That certain ways are our own ways should be no excuse for retaining them if they are not right. R705:3
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| 14 Then, shalt thou rest thine own exquisite delight upon Yahweh, . . . And I will cause thee to ride over the high places of the land,–And will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For, the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken. |
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