Isaiah 58:8-9

True and False Fasting

⁸ _n Then shall your light break forth like the dawn,
_o and your healing shall spring up speedily;
_p your righteousness shall go before you;
_q the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
⁹ Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.'
If you take away _r the yoke from your midst,
_s the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

1. Cross References
   Job 11:17
   And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
   
2. Cross References
   Jeremiah 30:17
   For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 85:13
   Righteousness will go before him and make his footsteps a way.
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 52:12
   For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
   
5. Cross References
   Isaiah 58:6
   Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
   
6. Cross References
   Proverbs 6:13
   Winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger.