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Micah 6: 8\n8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.\n And what does the Lord require of you?\nTo act justly and to love mercy\n and to walk humbly with your God.\n\nIsaiah 58: 1-12\n58 \u201cShout it aloud, do not hold back.\n Raise your voice like a trumpet.\nDeclare to my people their rebellion\n and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.\n2 For day after day they seek me out;\n they seem eager to know my ways,\nas if they were a nation that does what is right\n and has not forsaken the commands of its God.\nThey ask me for just decisions\n and seem eager for God to come near them.\n3 \u2018Why have we fasted,\u2019 they say,\n \u2018and you have not seen it?\nWhy have we humbled ourselves,\n and you have not noticed?\u2019\n\u201cYet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please\n and exploit all your workers.\n4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,\n and in striking each other with wicked fists.\nYou cannot fast as you do today\n and expect your voice to be heard on high.\n5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,\n only a day for people to humble themselves?\nIs it only for bowing one\u2019s head like a reed\n and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?\nIs that what you call a fast,\n a day acceptable to the Lord?\n6 \u201cIs not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:\nto loose the chains of injustice\n and untie the cords of the yoke,\nto set the oppressed free\n and break every yoke?\n7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry\n and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter\u2014\nwhen you see the naked, to clothe them,\n and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?\n8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,\n and your healing will quickly appear;\nthen your righteousness[a] will go before you,\n and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.\n9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;\n you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.\n\u201cIf you do away with the yoke of oppression,\n with the pointing finger and malicious talk,\n10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry\n and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,\nthen your light will rise in the darkness,\n and your night will become like the noonday.\n11 The Lord will guide you always;\n he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land\n and will strengthen your frame.\nYou will be like a well-watered garden,\n like a spring whose waters never fail.\n12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins\n and will raise up the age-old foundations;\nyou will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,\n Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.