Isaiah 58:10
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
11 The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
- KJV
- And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
- WEB
- and 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;
- ASV
- and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday;
- DARBY
- and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as midday;
- BLB
- and [if] you extend to the hungry your soul, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your darkness [will be] like the noonday.
- ÅB
- og tar fram til den sultne det som du selv har lyst til, og metter en lidende sjel, da skal ditt lys opprinne i mørket, og din natt bli som middagen.
- OTB
- og hvis du gir av deg selv til de sultne og tilfredsstiller de nødlidendes behov, da skal ditt lys stige i mørket, og din skumring skal bli som middag.
- B1930
- og tar frem til den sultne det som du selv har lyst til, og metter en lidende sjel, da skal ditt lys oprinne i mørket, og din natt bli som middagen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 11:24–25
One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
Read in contextIsaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
Read in contextPsalms 37:6
He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
Read in contextIsaiah 58:7–8
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Read in contextJob 11:17
Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 15:7–10
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
Read in contextLuke 18:22
On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
Read in contextProverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
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