Isaiah 58:6

Catholic Public Domain Version

Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:11

My father imposed a heavy yoke upon you, and I will place more weight upon it. My father cut you with whips; truly, I will beat you with scorpions.' "

2 Chronicles 28:11

But listen to my counsel, and release the captives, whom you have brought from your brothers. For a great fury of the Lord is hanging over you."

Proverbs 24:11

Rescue those who are led away to death. And do not cease from delivering those who are dragged away to a violent death.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

Isaiah 33:15

The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the impious one abandon his way, and the iniquitous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will take pity on him, and to our God, for he is great in forgiveness.

Isaiah 58:9

Then you will call, and the Lord will heed; you will cry out, and he will say, "Here I am," if you take away the chains from your midst, and cease to point your finger and to speak what is not beneficial.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 50:33

Thus says the Lord of hosts: "The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have endured calumny together. All who have seized them are holding them and refusing to release them.

Daniel 4:27

And the king spoke out loud, saying, "Isn't this the great Babylon, which I have built, as the home of the kingdom, by the strength of my power and in the glory of my excellence?"

Leviticus 6:5

all that he wanted to obtain by fraud, the whole plus an additional fifth part, to the owner against whom he brought the damage.

Jonah 3:8

And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry out to the Lord with strength, and may man be converted from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge with true judgment, and act with mercy and compassion, each and every one with his brother.

Acts 8:23

For I perceive you to be in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."

1 Timothy 6:1

Whoever are servants under the yoke, let them consider their masters to be worthy of every honor, lest the name and doctrine of the Lord be blasphemed.