First Reading
Isaiah 58:9b-14
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
58:9Then shall you call, and the Lord shall hear: you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you will take away the chain out of the midst of you, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not.
10When you shall pour out your soul to the hungry, and shall satisfy the troubled soul then shall your light rise up in darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday.
11And the Lord will give you rest continually, and will fill your soul with brightness, and deliver your bones, and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail
12And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in you: you shall raise up the foundations of generation and generation: and you shall be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.
13If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while you do not your own ways, and your own will is not found: to speak a word:
14Then shall you be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift you up above the high places of the earth, and will feed you with the gift of Jacob your father. For the mouth of the Lord has said it.