1Yell it out, don’t hold back, raise your voice like a trumpet, and show my peeps their mess-ups, and the fam of Jacob their sins.

2But they be looking for me daily, vibing to know my ways, like a crew that’s righteous, not ditching their God’s rules: they ask me for justice vibes; they’re hyped to get close to God.

3They be like, “Why we fast and you ain’t noticing? Why we be hurting ourselves and you don’t care?” But check it, on your fast day you’re just chilling and grinding hard.

4For real, you fast just to beef and throw hands with wickedness: you can’t fast like that today just to get your voice heard up high.

5Is this the kind of fast I want? A day for a dude to hurt himself? Bowing down like a reed and throwing on sackcloth and ashes? You think that’s a fast and a dope day for the Lord?

6Isn’t this the fast I picked? To break the chains of evil, lift heavy burdens, let the oppressed go free, and smash every yoke?

7Isn’t it about sharing your bread with the hungry, and bringing the homeless to your crib? When you see the naked, cover them; don’t ghost your own fam.

8Then your light will shine like the morning, and your health will bounce back fast: your righteousness will lead the way; the glory of the Lord will be your backup.

9Then you’ll call, and the Lord will answer; you’ll cry out, and he’ll say, “I’m here.” If you ditch the yoke, stop pointing fingers, and chill with the drama;

10And if you share your soul with the hungry and help the hurting, then your light will shine in the dark, and your darkness will be bright like noon.

11And the Lord will guide you all the time, satisfy your soul in dry spells, and beef up your bones: you’ll be like a garden getting watered, and like a spring that never runs dry.

12And those who come from you will rebuild the old wrecks: you’ll raise up the foundations for many generations; and you’ll be called, The fixer of the breaks, The restorer of paths to chill in.

13If you step away from your own vibe on the sabbath, from doing your thing on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, dope; and honor him, not doing your own stuff, nor chasing your own vibes, nor talking your own words:

14Then you’ll find joy in the Lord; and I’ll make you ride the high spots of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your dad: ‘cause the Lord said it, no cap.

1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

3Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

5Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a 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 Lord?

6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

7Is 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?

8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.

9Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

11And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

12And 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.

13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

14Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.