“Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?”
— WEB
Isaiah 58:7
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?”
— KJV
“Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?”
— ASV
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Commentary
deal--distribute (Job 31:16-21). cast out--rather, reduced [HORSLEY]. naked . . . cover him-- (Mat 25:36). hide . . . thyself--means to be strange towards them, and not to relieve them in their poverty (Mat 15:5). flesh--kindred (Gen 29:14). Also brethren in common descent from Adam, and brethren in Christ (Jam 2:15).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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