Scripture Passage for the Day

You are not fasting today so as to have your voice reach on high. Can such a fast be the kind I choose -- a man to bow down his head like a rush, to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call fasting, or an acceptable day to the LORD? Is not this the fast I have chosen: to loosen the bonds of wickedness; to undo the bands of the yoke; to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and to take the outcast poor into your home; not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then shall your light break forth lilke the dawn, and your healing shall follow speedily; your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of the LORD shall follow your as your rear guard. Then you will call and the LORD shall answer; you will cry and He shall say, Here am I.

Is 58:4b-9a Berkeley Version