Isaiah 58:8

Then your light would be broken open like the sunrise, and your healing would quickly sprout up; 1 your righteousness would go before you, and the glory of Yahweh would be your rearguard. 1

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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

In Context

7Is it not to break your bread with the hungry and to bring the poor and homeless into your house?” 1 When you see someone naked, you should clothe him; and you should not hide yourself from your own relatives. 1

9Then you would call, and Yahweh would answer; you would cry out for help, and he would say, “Here I am.” 1 If you take away from among yourselves the yoke, the accusing finger, and the speech of wickedness, 1

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Cross References

Job 11:17Your life would be brighter than the noonday; 1 though there were darkness, it would become like the morning. 1

Psalms 85:13Righteousness will go before him 1 and make a way for his footsteps.

Psalms 112:4Light shines in the darkness for the godly person; 1 he is gracious, merciful, and just. 1

Proverbs 11:17A kind person benefits himself, 1 but one who is cruel hurts himself. 1

Isaiah 30:26The light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the sunlight of seven days. 1 Yahweh will bind up the breaking of his people and heal the bruises of his wounding them. 1

Isaiah 57:18I have seen his ways, 1 but I will heal him. I will lead him and comfort and console those who mourn for him, 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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