Isaiah 58:13

"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of the Lord honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:

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In The King James Version

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

In Context

12Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

14then you shall delight yourself in the Lord; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father:" for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:8"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus 36:2Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:

Deuteronomy 5:12"Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.

Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the Lord, that I will seek after,that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,to see the Lord's beauty,and to inquire in his temple.

Psalms 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the Lord.My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Psalms 92:1A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord,to sing praises to your name, Most High;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 58:9-13

A Charge against the People; Encouragement to Israelites Indeed. ( b. c. 706.) 8 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. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and… Read the whole commentary →

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