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Isaiah 58 · Grade 5

Here I Am

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Read and Think

Isaiah 58 confronts religion without righteousness. The people "seek me daily, and delight to know my ways," and ask why God ignores their fasting. God answers that their fasts were marked by self-interest and exploitation: "in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers." Fasting ended in quarrels. In the New Testament, Jesus criticized showy fasting (Matthew 6:16-18) and religious leaders who neglected justice and mercy (Matthew 23:23).

The true fast (verses 6-7) is social and practical: loosing the bonds of wickedness, freeing the oppressed, sharing bread with the hungry, sheltering the homeless poor, clothing the needy, and not hiding "from your own flesh." In the New Testament, Jesus read Isaiah 61, which echoes the language of freeing the oppressed in 58:6, in the synagogue at Nazareth (Luke 4:18).

The promises (verses 8-14) mirror the people's complaint. They had asked why God did not see; now "you will call, and Yahweh will answer." Light will break out, God's glory will be their "rear guard" as in the Exodus, and they will be "like a spring of water whose waters don't fail." They will be called "Repairer of the Breach." The Sabbath, honored rather than used for business, becomes a delight, and "then you will delight yourself in Yahweh."

Show What You Know

  1. What was wrong with the people's fasting?

  2. Which New Testament passages criticize showy religion?

  3. What does the true fast include?

  4. What name will they be called?

Crossword

51243

Across

  1. Is this the ____ that I have chosen.
  2. Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the ____.

Down

  1. You will be like a watered ____.
  2. Then your ____ will break out as the morning.
  3. Isn’t it to distribute your ____ to the hungry.

Think About It

  1. The people were religious but unjust. How can we make sure our worship and our treatment of others match?

  2. God's people would be called Repairer of the Breach. What broken things in your community could you help repair?

Memory Verse

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:1 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for showing me how to help. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • How can you help fix one thing in your neighborhood?
  • How can your worship and your kindness go together?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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