Isaiah 58:1 Cry.(original 'proclaim').aloud, spare not, lift up your voice.(Ezekiel 3:16-19).like a trumpet.(original for word 'trumpet' is 'goodly', 'pleasing', 'beautiful', 'bright':.Colossians 4:6).and show.(declare in a way they can clearly comprehend to do what they must see and know what the evils are).my people where they are wrong and need to improve, including the house of Jacob.

In other words, do have the courage to speak to others. Avoid being both a shrinking violet or an obnoxious.blaster. Have wisdom and intelligence in all you do, including relationships. 

Don't be out to leave people thinking you're just some half-baked noisy crackpot:.2Corinthians 10:1 "Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ...".Avoid being an example no one would want to follow or have around. All that attitude does is shove people away:.Colossians 4:6 "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.".Luke 14:34.

1Thessalonians 2:7 "But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children."
2Timothy 2:24 "And the servant of God must not strive, but be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient.".Why?.1Corinthians 9:22.
Titus 3:2 "To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing meekness unto people."
James 3:17 "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy."
1Peter 2:18 "Those in whose home you may be staying, get in line with their ways of doing things, respecting them whether they are good and gentle or froward."

The true compassionate loving God responsible for creating all we see and know and that which we still don't know, is showing that certain acts (reap what you sow) are causing us to miss the mark (the meaning of the word 'sin') of God's higher consciousness and, how bad was it back then?.Ezekiel 2:1-8; 5:8-10. And how bad today?

Isaiah 58:2 Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God. They ask of me the ordinances of justice.(the proper and fitting manner of justice).and they take delight in approaching to God.

Barnes Notes:."Probably this means, they profess to delight to know the ways of God, that is, his commands, truths and requirements. A hypocrite has no real delight in the service of God or in his truth, but it is true at the same time that there may be a great deal of professed interest in religion. There may be a great deal of busy and bustling.solicitude about the order of religious services, such as the external organization of the church, the ranks of the clergy and the claims of a liturgy. There may be much pleasure in theological discussion, in the metaphysics of theology and in the defense of what is deemed.orthodoxy. There may be much pleasure in the mere music of devotion. There may be pleasure in the voice of a preacher and in the power of his arguments. And there may be much pleasure in the advancement of the denomination to which we are attached, such as the conversion of people not from sin, but from a side opposite to us and not to holiness and to God, but to our party and denomination."

Isaiah 58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they and you see not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and exact all your labors.(instead of dedicating the time to God, prayer, meditation, contermplation, envisioning, those sort of spiritual things that count forever, it's different for hypocrites as it was for the Pharisees in Christ's time:.Luke 18:9-14).

Isaiah 58:4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness. You shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

Isaiah 58:4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate.(to gain a selfish advantage:.Luke 18:9-14).and to smite with the fist of wickedness.(they used what they felt was a spiritual advantage to feel superior and to scorn others:.Matthew 6:16-18). You shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.(but rather to be humble.

John 13:38 "Emmanuel answered him, Will you lay down your life for my sake?..."

Isaiah 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? 

Isaiah 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen?.(Isaiah 66:2).A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands.(Psalms 73:4).of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free.(learn how to be in service and helpfulness to others) and that you break every yoke.(the things that harness you to the low consciousness things of the world:.2Corinthians 6:17)?

"to let the oppressed go free", on this, see...
Fasting extricates one from one's own low consciousness:.Ephesians 6:12.

Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house and when you see the naked, you cover him and that you don't turn yourself away from those of your own flesh needing help?

Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to deal.(original for word 'deal' means to 'to divide, to distribute').your bread to the hungry and that you bring the poor that are cast out.(original for 'cast' is 'in misery', that is cast in misery; word 'out' not in original, but implied, as to not knowing where to go for help; fasting will improve your caring for others).to your house.(fasting will bring you to concern and caring for others and those less fortunate; fasting gives you great concern for others).and when you see the naked.(that is, not having much:.Matthew 25:35-40; Job 31:16-22), that you cover him and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh.(other humans in need; one way to turn away {hide yourself} from them is not to pray and fast for others needing help)?

Stay involved with your family, your relations and with those others in need as if they too were your family.

More on the poor amongst you:.John 12:8.

Isaiah 58:8 Then shall your light break forth as the morning and your health shall spring forth speedily and your righteousness shall go before you. The glory of the Lord shall be your rereward.(your protection).

Isaiah 58:9 Then you call and the Lord shall answer. You cry and he says, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger.(blaming others).and speaking vanity,

Vanity is the way of low consciousness man.

Isaiah 58:10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall your light rise in obscurity and your darkness be as the noonday.

Deuteronomy 15:1-11; Proverbs 31:8,9.

Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord guides you continually and satisfies your soul in drought and makes fat your bones and you are a watered garden and a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

John 7:38.

Isaiah 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. You raise up the foundations of many generations and are called, The repairer of the breach.(making things better for all), The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Isaiah 58:13,14 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words.(own own plans and dreams we get so involved in to the point God is left out of them). Then shall you delight yourself in the Lord and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the Earth and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

Isaiah 59:1 Behold, God's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save.(original adds 'deliver', 'help', 'rescue', 'victory'), neither his ear heavy.(never gets tired from hearing an individual communicating with him and never gets tired giving answers to him or her).that it cannot hear.

Micah 2:7; Psalms 103:2,3; 147:3.

Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear.

God hides. Gotta get clean first if you want to be and stay part of God. How?

Isaiah 59:3-7 For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity.(who were these terrible ones?). Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue has muttered perverseness...None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity....They hatch cockatrice eggs and weave the spider's web. He that eats of their eggs dies and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper...Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity and acts of violence is in their hands...Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Isaiah 59:8 The way of peace they know not and there is no judgment.(*).in their goings. They have made themselves crooked paths. Whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.

Careful who you follow in life. If you don't have peace in your life (Romans 3:17), you know what kind of path is affecting that:.Psalms 34:14; John 14:6.

Isaiah 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold obscurity, for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night. We are in desolate places as dead men.

Isaiah 59:11-14 We roar all like bears and mourn sore like doves. We look for judgment, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before you and our sins testify against us.(*). For our transgressions are with us and as for our iniquities, we know them.(Jeremiah 44:16,17). 

Isaiah 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord.(how lying against the Lord? by not being of the same mind of love, which is higher consciousness present awareness).and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart, words of falsehood.(John 8:44).

Isaiah 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward and justice stands afar off. For truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:15-17 Yea, truth fails and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey and the Lord saw it and it displeased him that there was no judgment. And he saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor, therefore his arm brought salvation unto him and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate and an helmet of salvation upon his head and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

Isaiah 59:15-17 "Yea, truth fails and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey.(a horrible atmosphere of a society to be in, where if you're not part and parcel with all the cruds out there, they may pounce on you; ever hear of bullies?).and the Lord saw it and it displeased him that there was no judgment.(the ego is such that no one at his best was of the heart to be fair to others; even those who may be called judges). And he saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor.(no person in a heart born of the ego, gives a damn about another's plight; if they did,  war, violence, hate, greed and poverty would have long ago been gone), therefore his arm brought salvation unto him.(the Creator had to step in by sending one of his high consciousness level {the realm of Christ}, so humanity could have an example and a hope of better things).and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he.(the one who became Christ).put on righteousness as a breastplate and an helmet of salvation upon his head.(thus should we all be: Ephesians 6:14; 1Thessalonians 5:8).and he put on the garments of vengeance.(humanity could now relax and be peaceable, leaving retribution and war to him who is fully able to handle it:.Romans 12:17-19).for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloke.(willing and anxious to solve the negatives humanity had created; and so, our hope: 1Timothy 1:1)."

Isaiah 59:18 According to their deeds.(*), accordingly he will repay.(*), fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies and to the islands he will repay recompence.

Barnes Notes:."The idea here is, that God would 'repay recompense' or take vengeance on the foreign nations which had oppressed them.".Romans 12:19.

Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard.(original for word 'standard' is 'to drive him away'; he'll flee from you) against him.

So, the sentence 'When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him' should read 'When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall provide escape'; the word 'standard' is 'escape' in the original KJV; words 'against him' not in original, nor are words 'shall lift up';.JPS Translation.has it:."So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west and His glory from the rising of the sun, for distress will come in like a flood, which the breath of the Lord drives."; the JPS Translation has the verse referring to God in control even in control of the evil.

Isaiah 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the Lord.

Today it's all of us who want to turn to the better ways of the Creator:.Acts 17:30; 1Timothy 2:4.

Isaiah 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord; My spirit that is upon you and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Why? Because people will come to love what the Creator is doing.

Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine.(rise and shine!), for your light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.

Ephesians 5:14.

Isaiah 60:2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the Earth and gross darkness the people, but the Lord shall arise upon you and his glory shall be seen upon you.

When and what to do when it does:.2Corinthians 3:16.

Isaiah 60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Isaiah 60:10 And the sons of strangers shall build up your walls and their kings shall minister unto you, for in my wrath I smote you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.

Isaiah 60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree and the box.(an evergreen tree).together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary and I will make the place of my feet.(Isaiah 66:1).glorious.

Isaiah 60:19,20 The sun shall be no more your light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto you, but the Lord shall be unto you an everlasting light and your God your glory. Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon.(original for 'moon' is 'month').withdraw itself.(that is, the month won't seem short, you'll get all done you need to), for the Lord shall be your everlasting light and the days of your mourning shall be ended.

Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous.(how?). They shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation. I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of God is upon me because he has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek and sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 

Luke 4:18.

Isaiah 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God and to comfort all that mourn.

Every year and time is acceptable when people love God and love it that God loves them.

Isaiah 49:8.

Quoted in the New Testament at.Luke 4:19-21.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of God, that he might be glorified.

Psalms 45:7.

Isaiah 61:4-6 And they.(who are the 'they?.1John 3:1).shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations...And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers...But you shall be named the Priests of God. Men shall call you the Ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of strangers and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.

Isaiah 52:7.

Isaiah 61:7 For your shame you shall have double and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess the double. Everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Isaiah 61:8 For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering.(talking about theft of any kind and presenting something bought by that to God, making it appear to others as if those doing such a thing were holy and righteous. Similar to what Ananias & Sapphira did. Malachi 2:12 for more).and I will direct their work in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 61:9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles and their offspring among the people. All that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

Isaiah 61:10,11 I will greatly rejoice in God. My soul shall be joyful in my God. God has clothed me with the garments of salvation and covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels...For as the earth brings forth her bud and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Isaiah 62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns..(*)

Isaiah 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness and all kings your glory and you shall be called by a new name.(1John 3:1), which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy sons marry you. And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night.(many even today are constantly talking to God about all the inequities in the world). You that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence.

Isaiah 62:11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him and his work before him.

Zechariah 9:9; Ephesians 2:10.

Isaiah 63:4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart and the year of my redeemed is come.

The day is now here when God is requiting the evils the dark side has perpetrated upon mankind through those having given their life over to the satanic side.

Isaiah 63:7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

Isaiah 63:8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie, so he was their Saviour.

Two types of lying; one ok, one not.

Isaiah 63:9 In all their.(who were they?.Exodus 19:4).affliction God was afflicted.(God has great empathy for each of us).and the angel of his presence saved them.(who was this?.1Corinthians 10:4). In his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days.(Hebrews 13:5).of old.

The good angels were in this energy of higher consciousness, the energy called Christ.

Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit.(Ephesians 4:30), therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them.

Isaiah 63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

Isaiah 63:17 O Lord, why have you made us to err from your ways and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
 

...continues to Chapters 64-65

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