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Pentecost Season · Proper 16 · Year C

Isaiah 58:9b-14

True Fasting and Sabbath Delight

August 27, 2028

The Seven Works of Mercy: Feeding the Hungry, Master of Alkmaar
The Seven Works of Mercy: Feeding the Hungry, Master of Alkmaar, 1504Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Seven panels made for a church in Alkmaar, each showing one work of mercy performed in a Dutch street, with Christ standing unnoticed among the bystanders in every one.If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness.Master of AlkmaarAn unidentified painter working in the northern Netherlands around 1500, named after this altarpiece. Several candidates have been proposed and none has stuck.Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamThe Netherlands' national museum, built around the Dutch Golden Age and reopened in 2013 after a ten-year rebuilding.Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelLuke 13:10-17Lk 13:10-17
EpistleHeb. 12:18-29Heb 12:18-29
Old TestamentJer. 1:4-10Jer 1:4-10Alt. OTIsa. 58:9b-14Is 58:9b-14
PsalterPs. 71:1-6Ps 71:1-6Alt. PsalmPs. 103:1-8Ps 103:1-8

Overview & Insights

"If you remove the yoke from among you... then your light shall rise in the darkness." (Isaiah 58:9b-10)

Isaiah promises restoration to a people who stop pointing fingers and instead feed the hungry. The passage closes with a call to honor the Sabbath as a delight rather than a burden.

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Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 58:9b-14Commentary on Is 58:9b-14 Working Preacher

Connects the passage's 'here I am' to God's own call to Isaiah.

Isaiah 58 Bible CommentaryIs 58 Bible Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Verse notes contrasting empty fasting with true fasting.

Isaiah 58:9 CommentariesIs 58:9 Commentaries BibleHub

Aggregates classic commentary on the promise of restored light.

Isaiah 58 (Gill's Exposition)Is 58 (Gill's Exposition) StudyLight

Detailed verse notes on the fasting and Sabbath material.

Isaiah 58:9 InterlinearIs 58:9 Interlinear BibleHub

Shows the underlying Hebrew of the restoration promise.

Background & Word Study

Isaiah 58:9-14Is 58:9-14 Sefaria

Gives the Hebrew text of the passage alongside translation.

Book of Isaiah Overview (Part 2)Book of Is Overview (Part 2) BibleProject

Covers the section of Isaiah (chs. 40-66) that this passage belongs to.

Sermons & Reflections

Dignity and Rest (Isaiah 58:9b-14)Dignity and Rest (Is 58:9b-14) The Christian Century

An essay on Jubilee-shaped rest as the passage's deeper concern.

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