Fasting is the chapter's battleground. Jehovah commands the prophet to lift his voice like a trumpet and declare Jacob's sins: the people seek God daily and ask why their fasts go unseen, yet on fast days they pursue their own pleasure, exact labor, and strike with the fist (vv. 1-4). Jehovah redefines the fast he chooses: loosing the bonds of wickedness, breaking every yoke, sharing bread with the hungry, housing the outcast poor, clothing the naked (vv. 6-7). Then light breaks forth like the morning, Jehovah answers "Here I am," the people become a watered garden and an unfailing spring, ancient ruins are rebuilt, and they are named "The repairer of the breach" (vv. 8-12). A sabbath promise closes the chapter: those who call the sabbath a delight will ride the high places of the earth and feed on Jacob's heritage (vv. 13-14).

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–5 Is This the Fast That I Have Chosen?
B. 6–12 Loose the Bands of Wickedness and Be a Repairer of the Breach
C. 13–14 Call the Sabbath a Delight

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