Isaiah 58:6 Cross References - Rotherham

⁶ Is not, this, the fast that I must ever choose––To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness, To unloose the bands of the yoke,––and, To let the crushed go free, and, That, every yoke, ye tear off?

¹⁰ I too, then, my brethren and my young men, might be lending unto them on interest silver and corn! I pray you, let us leave off this lending on interest! ¹¹ Restore, I pray you, unto them this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses,––also the hundredth of silver and corn, new wine and oil, for which ye have been lending to them. ¹² And they said, We will restore them, and, from them, will we require nothing, so, will we do, as thou, art saying. Then called I the priests, and put them on oath, to do according to this promise.

⁹ Then, shalt thou, Call, and, Yahweh, will answer, Cry out, and he will say, Behold me! If thou remove, out of thy midst, The yoke, The pointing of the finger, and, The speaking of iniquity;

⁸ The word which came unto Jeremiah, from Yahweh,––after that King Zedekiah had solemnised a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem, proclaiming unto them, liberty: ⁹ that every man should let his servant and every man his handmaid, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free,––so that no man should use them as slaves, to wit a Jew his brother; ¹⁰ so then they hearkened––even all the princes and all the people who had entered into the covenant, that every man should let his servant and every man his handmaid, go free, so as not to use them as slaves, any longer,––yea they hearkened, and let them go, ¹¹ howbeit they turned, after that, and brought back the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go, free, and brought them into subjection as servants and as handmaids.

² Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong,––tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people, and, their skin from off them, have stript, and, their bones, have they broken in pieces,––and will spread them out, as flesh with a fork, and as flesh, in the midst of a pot. ⁴ Then, shall they make outcry unto Yahweh, but he will not answer them,––that he may hide his face from them, at that time, even as they have made wicked their doings.

¹ Let, as many as are servants under a yoke, be counting, their own masters, worthy, of all honour, lest, the name of God and the teaching, be defamed.