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Isaiah
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“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. See also: Titus 2:15Hosea 8:1Acts 20:26-27Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God. See also: Titus 1:16Isaiah 29:13Matthew 15:7-9‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers. See also: Luke 18:9-12Malachi 3:14Proverbs 28:9Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high. See also: 1 Kings 21:9-13Matthew 6:16-18Proverbs 21:27Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? See also: Daniel 9:3-19Zechariah 7:5Isaiah 49:8“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? See also: Nehemiah 5:10-12Isaiah 58:91 Timothy 6:1Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh? See also: Matthew 25:35-45Ezekiel 18:7Luke 3:11Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and the LORD’s glory will be your rear guard. See also: Isaiah 52:12Jeremiah 33:6Psalms 37:6Then you will call, and the LORD will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly; See also: Psalms 50:15Jeremiah 29:12-13Isaiah 65:24and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday; See also: Proverbs 11:24-25Psalms 37:6Isaiah 42:16and the LORD will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail. See also: John 4:14Psalms 32:8Jeremiah 31:12Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings. See also: Isaiah 61:4Amos 9:14Ezekiel 36:33“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 honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, See also: Jeremiah 17:21-27Psalms 92:1-2Isaiah 56:2-6then you will 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 LORD’s mouth has spoken it. See also: Deuteronomy 32:13Job 22:26Isaiah 1:19-20
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 58:1
Ver. 1. Sins. During the captivity. v. 11. S. Thomas. --- Some will not hear, and those must be rebuked with all patience, till they follow virtue. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 58:2
Ver. 2. Approach, and contend with God, scrutinizing his conduct, (Prov. xxv.
27.) and doing good for the sake of applause and self-interest.
↑ 2Isaiah 58:3
Ver. 3. Will. This alone suggested their fasts, and they did not shew compassion. Ezec. vii. 2. C.
--- Debtors, who are not able to pay. S. Jer. Deut. xxiv. 12.
↑ 3Isaiah 58:4
Ver. 4. Strife. The usual works were interrupted. The Church formerly forbade law-suits on fast-days. --- Fist. Mat. xviii. 28. --- Wickedly. Sept. "the humble."
↑ 4Isaiah 58:5
Ver. 5. Circle. They affected extreme debility. Mat. vi. 16. C. --- Ashes. These external marks of penance are not condemned, but the want of corresponding sentiments. H. --- Prot. would hence infer that fasting from flesh is not requisite, or a religious worship. But S. Jerom shews the contrary, provided it be joined with the observance of other commandments, as the saints and Christ himself have shewn us. W.
↑ 5Isaiah 58:6
Ver. 6. Bands. Contracts of usury, &c. C.
↑ 6Isaiah 58:7
Ver. 7. Deal. Lit. "break." H. --- Thin cakes are still used in the East. --- Flesh, or relation. Gen.
xxvii. 27.
↑ 7Isaiah 58:8
Ver. 8. Light. Prosperity, (C.) or Saviour. H. --- Mat. iv. 2. and John i. 8. C. ---
Health. Aquila,
"the scar of thy wound shall soon be covered." S. Jer. --- Up. He shall close the rear, like the angel in the cloud. Ex. xiii. 21. and xiv. 19. He will grant thee rest from bondage in the grave and in heaven. C.
↑ 8Isaiah 58:9
Ver. 9. Finger, contemptuously, or threatening. S. Jer. --- Some explain it of the ordaining sacred ministers, or taking another's property.
↑ 9Isaiah 58:10
Ver. 10. Soul, effectually, and with love relieving the distressed. C.
↑ 10Isaiah 58:11
Ver. 11. Fail. Sept. Alex. adds, "and thy bones as a flower shall spring and grow fat, and shall inherit ages of ages." S. Jerom says this is not in the best copies.
H.
↑ 11Isaiah 58:12
Ver. 12. Generation. As the Jews did not comply with the condition, the Church falls heir to these promises.
↑ 12Isaiah 58:13
Ver. 13. Sabbath, doing no work, or refraining from the violation of festivals. ---
Delightful. We must not think the sabbath of the Lord a loss: (Amos viii. 5.) but rejoice in praising him. Ps. xlv.
11. C. --- A word, or to apply to God's word. Grot. --- Pious reading on holidays is the duty of all who have an opportunity. H.
↑ 13Isaiah 58:14
Ver. 14. Earth. Judea. C. --- Sept. "upon the good things of the land." H.
↑ 14License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses