Isaiah 58:13 — If you make sure you don't break the Sabbath by doing whatever you please on my… — FBV | maBible
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Other reference formats: Isaiah 58.13, Isaiah 58v13, Es. 58:13.
13 If you make sure you don't break the Sabbath by doing whatever you please on my holy day, if you say the Sabbath brings you pleasure and the Lord's day is to be honored, and if you honor it by leaving aside your own ways, by not doing whatever you please, and by avoiding chatting about ordinary things,
Passage themes
Retenir son pied — Si tu retiens ton pied, pendant le sabbat
Le sabbat, un plaisir — si tu considères le sabbat comme un plaisir
Notes and references
“If you make sure you don't break,” literally, “If you keep your foot from.”
“chatting about ordinary things”: the Hebrew is literally “the speaking of a word,” but clearly this does not mean that nothing at all is to be said on the Sabbath, as this would preclude worship services. What seems to be the concept is that conversation of little value is to be avoided.