Isaiah 58 criticizes fasting and religiosity when it is just a façade for true spirituality. True sincere religion has to be inside and outside and not fasting and exploiting workers at the same time! Not fasting amidst quarrelling and strife. To fast with sincerity one has to loose the chains of injustice... you need to share your food with the hungry... provide the poor with shelter and the naked with clothes. Then, and only then will your righteousness go before you... then you will call and the Lord will answer. If you satisfy the needs of the oppressed then your night will become like noonday and you will be like a well-watered garden... and if you honour the sabbath then you will find your joy in the Lord.
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