Isaiah 58:1

Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

“I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, But they will not profit you.

For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins answer against us; For our transgressions are with us, And we know our iniquities:

“Go and call out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I remember concerning you the lovingkindness of your youth, The love of your betrothals, Your walking after Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown.

“And I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not give heed.’

Your prophets have beheld for you Worthless and ineffective visions; And they have not uncovered your iniquity So as to return you from captivity, But they have beheld for you worthless and misleading oracles.

“Son of man, I have given you as a watchman to the house of Israel; so you will hear a word from My mouth, and you shall warn them from Me.

“Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations

Moreover, Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows on the trumpet and warns the people,

“Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before Me.”

On the other hand I am filled with power— With the Spirit of Yahweh— And with justice and might To declare to Jacob his transgression, Even to Israel his sin.

Fasting as Yahweh Chooses