  Relieving the oppressed and observing the Sabbath sanctify fast days and beget covenant blessings.  0 Proclaim it aloud without restraint;raise your voice like a trumpet!Declare to my people their transgressions,to the house of Jacob its sins.0 Yet they importune me daily,eager to learn my ways,like a nation practicing righteousnessand not forsaking the precepts of its God.  They inquire of me concerning correct ordinances,desiring to draw nearer to God:0 Why, when we fast, do you not notice?We afflict our bodies and you remain indifferent!It is because on your fast day you pursue your own endsand constrain all who toil for you.0 You fast amid strife and contention,striking out savagely with the fist.Your present fasts are not suchas to make your voice heard on high.  0 Is this the manner of fasting I have required,just a time for men to torment themselves?Is it only for bowing one's head like a reedand making one's bed of sackcloth and ashes?Do you call that a fast,a day of Jehovah's good graces?  0 Is not this the fast I require:To release from wrongful bondage,to untie the harness of the yoke,to set the oppressed at libertyand abolish all forms of subjection?0 Is it not to share your food with the hungry,to bring home the wretchedly poor,and when you see men underclad to clothe them,and not to neglect your own kin?  0 Then shall your light break through like the dawnand your healing speedily appear;your righteousness will go before you,and the glory of Jehovah will be your rearguard.  0 Then, should you call, Jehovah will respond;should you cry, he will say, I am here.Indeed, if you will banish servitude from among you,and the pointing finger and offensive speech,00 if you will give of your own to the hungryand satisfy the needs of the oppressed,then shall your light dawn amid darknessand your twilight become as the noonday.  00 Jehovah will direct you continually;he will satisfy your needs in the dearthand bring vigor to your limbs.And you will become like a well-watered garden,like a spring of unfailing waters.00 They who came out of you will rebuild the ancient ruins;you will restore the foundations of generations ago.You shall be called a rebuilder of fallen walls,a restorer of streets for resettlement.  00 If you will keep your feet from trampling the Sabbath - from achieving your own ends on my holy day - and consider the Sabbath a delight,the holy day of Jehovah venerable,and if you will honor itby refraining from your everyday pursuits - from occupying yourselves with your own affairsand speaking of business matters - 00 then shall you delight in Jehovah,and I will make you traverse the heights of the earthand nourish you with the heritage of Jacob your father.By his mouth Jehovah has spoken it.  A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, whom Jehovah appoints to confront his people with their hypocrisy, to admonish them to repent, and to teach them the true points of his law and word.  blue  A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, whom Jehovah appoints to confront his people with their hypocrisy, to admonish them to repent, and to warn them of Jehovah's imminent judgments.  blue  A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, whose righteousness contrasts his people's self-righteousness at the time Jehovah appoints him to instruct them in the ordinances of his covenant.  blue  A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who intercedes with Jehovah on behalf of his people to deliver them from destruction and to bless them with the blessings of his covenant.  blue  A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, the exemplar of the reprobates of Jehovah's people, who forfeit Jehovah's blessings by imposing heavy burdens on the poor.  red  A creation motif and pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who personifies the light that dawns on Jehovah's people at the time Jehovah restores them and delivers them in a new exodus to Zion.  blue  A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who leads Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion at the time Jehovah's coming to reign on the earth draws near.  blue  A creation motif and pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, the light that dawns on his repentant people, dispelling the darkness of their former wickedness and healing their alienation from Jehovah.  blue  A chaos motif and pseudonym of the end-time king Assyria/Babylon, who typifies the powers of darkness that hold humanity captive but whom Jehovah's servant banishes from those who repent.  red  A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who receives divine revelation and who assigns Jehovah's elect everlasting inheritances.  