Isaiah 58:7

Is it not paras lechem (breaking bread of thine, i.e., serving food) to the hungry, 1 and that thou bring the homeless aniyyim (poor) to thy bais? 1 When thou seest the arom (naked), that thou cover him with clothing; 1 and that thou hide not thyself from thine own basar (flesh and blood, kinspeople)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

In Context

6Is not this the tzom that I have chosen? 1 To loose the chartzubbot resha (chains of wickedness, injustice), 1 to undo the aguddot motah (bindings of the yoke bar), 1 and to let the retzutzim (oppressed ones) go as chafeshim (free ones), 1 and that ye break kol motah (every yoke of oppression)? 1

8Then shall thy light break forth like the shachar (dawn), 1 and thine healing titzmach (shall spring forth; Tzemach) speedily; 1 and thy tzedek shall go before thee; 1 the kavod Hashem shall be thy rearguard. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 19:2And he said, Hinei, adonai (my masters), turn in, now, into the bais avdechem, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Lo; but we will abide the night in the rekhov.

Judges 9:2Speak, now, in the ears of all the ba'alei Shechem, Which is better for you, either that all the Bnei Yeruba'al, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one man reign over you? Remember also that I am your etzem (bone) and your basar (flesh).

2 Chronicles 28:15And the men which were designated by shemot rose up, and took the prisoners, and with the plunder clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and put balm on them, and carried all the weak of them upon donkeys, and brought them to Yericho, the Ir Temarim, to their achim. Then they returned to Shomron.

Job 22:7Thou hast not given mayim to the weary to drink, 1 and thou hast withheld lechem from the hungry. 1

Job 31:19If I have seen any oved (one perishing) for want of clothing, 1 or any evyon (needy) without covering, 1

Proverbs 11:17The ish chesed (merciful man) doeth good to his own nefesh, 1 but he that is cruel harmeth his own self. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 58:4-8

A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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