Selection from Isaiah 58

Bono introduced me to this passage in his address at the National Prayer Breakfast. The emphases are mine.

"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it
not to share your food with the
hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with
shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Then your light will break forth like the dawn and your
healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go
before you, and the glory of the
Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call and the Lord will answer.
You will cry for help and he will say: Here am
I."

As my friend Steve says, "God's a great ghostwriter."