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10 You must[a] actively help the hungry
and feed the oppressed.[b]
Then your light will dispel the darkness,[c]
and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 58:10 tn Heb “if you.” See the note on “you must” in v. 9b.
  2. Isaiah 58:10 tn Heb “If you furnish for the hungry [with] your being, and the appetite of the oppressed you satisfy.”
  3. Isaiah 58:10 tn Heb “will rise in the darkness.”
  4. Isaiah 58:10 tn Heb “and your darkness [will be] like noonday.”

10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
    and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,(A)
then your light(B) will rise in the darkness,
    and your night will become like the noonday.(C)

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