Isaiah 58:14

"“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of the LORD honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,"

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes that true observance of the Sabbath involves more than just abstaining from work; it requires a heart transformed by delighting in God's presence and honoring His holy day above one’s own desires and words. Such devotion brings genuine pleasure and a deeper relationship with the Lord.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord -That is, as a consequence of properly observing the Sabbath, thou shalt find pleasure in Yahweh. It will be a pleasure to draw near to him, and you shall no longer be left to barren ordinances and to unanswered prayers. The delight or pleasure which God’s people have in him is a direct and necessary consequence of the proper observance of the Sabbath.

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