⁴ Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,^(A)
    and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
    and expect your voice to be heard^(B) on high.
⁵ Is this the kind of fast^(C) I have chosen,
    only a day for people to humble^(D) themselves?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed^(E)
    and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?^(F)
Is that what you call a fast,
    a day acceptable to the Lord?

⁶ “Is not this the kind of fasting^(G) I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice^(H)
    and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed^(I) free
    and break every yoke?^(J)