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QUESTIONS FOR ISAIAH 58 – 59:

1. What is Isaiah told to do, and in what manner? (vs. 1)

2. How is Jerusalem characterized? Did they seek God? (vs. 2)

3. Why were the people puzzled? (vs. 3)

4. What was God’s answer to their puzzlement? (vs. 3)

5. What was the purpose in their fasting – as opposed to its genuine purpose? (vs 4)

6. How did God view their fasting and why? (vs. 5)

7. What kind of fasting did God require? (vs. 6-7)

8. When they repent and heed the plight of the poor, what will result? (vs. 8-9)

9. How are their misdeeds described? (vs. 9)

10. How is God’s desire of them described? (vs. 10)

11. Who will be their guide and what will he do for them? (vs. 10-11)

12. What will they and their descendants do and what will be their reputation? (vs. 12)

13. What must they do to "delight themselves in the Lord?" (vs. 13-14)

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14. Was God’s inability to save the thing that caused their distress? (vs. 1)

15. What was at the root of their problems, and what can we learn? (vs. 2)

16. Were God’s complaints against idolatry or immorality? (vs. 3-4)

17. What two figures are used to describe their dishonesty? (vs. 5-6)

18. What word is used to describe their paths – the way they behave? (vs. 8)

19. How are those who looked for justice characterized? (vs. 9-10).

20. What testifies against the people before God? (vs. 12-13).

21. What happens to those who depart from evil? (vs. 15)

22. What was it that moved God to action? (vs. 16)

23. Describe God’s battle clothing? (vs. 17)

24. He will repay according to what? (vs. 18)

25. For whom does the Redeemer come to Zion? (vs. 20)

26. What is the covenant that God has made with the righteous of Judah? (vs. 21)