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Yesterday in church our Old Testament reading was Isaiah 58:1-9a.

It really struck me that the reading finished halfway through a verse, so I read on.

Last night, as I was finishing a book in bed, I read a chapter that quoted Isaiah 58:9b-11.

This morning I had a conversation with a friend who had recently been subject to a whole load of malicious talk about another friend.

Let's spend our time fruitfully by meeting the needs of others.

If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
Isaiah 58:9b-10