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Para-lation of the verse given on the way from Miami toSantiago, DR, Isaiah 54:2-4:

2 Broaden and make wide open the space andterritory of your tent—the profile of your habitat that people can clearly seefrom a distance;

Stretch forth the boundaries ofyour shepherds hut.

Do not hold anything back,

Make the ropes you tether your tent with longer;

And seize hold of the states ofyour tent, and fasten them obstinately sothey will be secure and fortified against the elements.

3 For you will burst forth and be compelled tospread out to the right and to the left (to the south and to the north);

And your children and yourposterity will occupy and posses the nations;

And they will establishthemselves in the dying and abandoned cities they find there.

4 Do not be frightened and caused to be indread, for you will not be caused to be pale with shame or with disappointmentor because of delay;

Neither will you be wounded bythe taunts and insults or confounded and bewildered by conflicting situationsand statements that are made,

Because you will not be causedto be shamed or reproached or brought into you confusion.

For you will be oblivious of the shame and confusion ofyour adolescence,

And the rude and hurtfulexpressions meant to reproach and shame you that came as the result of yourwidowhood will no longer be bookmarked in anyone’s memory or even mentioned.

This is the fasting (abstaining) that I’ve selected as acceptable and therefore require of you:

Loosen and open wide the painful fetters caused by your wickedness and iniquity;

Untie and shake off the yoke that you have strapped on;

Let those who are discouraged; bruised, and oppressed from their struggles be free from care;

And tear off every single yoke that burdens you and those under you.

It is to distribute your food to those who are going hungry;

To fetch the lowly, poor, humble and depressed who have been cruelly and inhumanely treated and cast out of their homes and them into your house;

And when you come across someone who doesn’t have clothes, provide them with what they need to be adequately clothed;

And do hide yourself and your generosity from yourself and your own kinfolk.

If you do this, then as a result, you will shine forth and your brightness will be made to break through your circumstances like at dawn the sun breaks through the darkness of night,

And the soundness of your health will promptly sprout and the duration of your service will be prolonged for a long time.

The prosperity of your natural, moral, and legally right, equity will precede you before the face of God

And the glory and splendor of Yahweh will haunt you and protect you from behind.

Then when you call out to Yahweh and bid Him to hear you,

Yahweh will pay attention and respond.

When you cry out for help, He will expressly answer you saying,

“Behold, I am here!”

If you pluck away and remove the heavy yoke of work and the unjust use of authority,

And the accusatory pointing of the finger,

And the troublesome and empty talking that brings to good with it but only wickedness

And if you provide your soul vitality to those who suffer from hunger,

And to fill up and satiate the soul vitality of those who are browbeaten, depressed, and afflicted;

It is then that your brightness will shine forth out of the darkness, misery, ignorance, and obscurity and provide spiritual insight as it spreads forth;

And it is then that the darkness and misfortune around you will be changed to the brightness of the sun at noon.

Yahweh will regularly and constantly lead you forth; transporting and guiding you as you go forward.

And He will fill your soul and vitality to satisfaction during times of drought.

He will equip and strengthen the substance of your life and arm you for the fight.

You will be like a well-watered garden

And like a spring of water whose water never fails.

If you do this you and your people will begin to build up and have children who build up and repair the ancient places that have been laid waste and made desolate and abandoned to decay.

You will raise up and cause to be raised up and strengthen the foundations that will be established for the sake of generations to come.

Your reputation and title will be the one who repaired and closed up the wall (Repairer of Broken Walls);

And the one who cleared the paths and streets to restore usefulness so people could once again live in their houses and open their shops for business (Restorer of Inhabitable Neighborhoods).

Oh that you would turn your feet back and return from breaking the Sabbath by busying yourself and going about your own busyness and purposes on the Sabbath—the day I’ve set apart and hallowed rather than My business.

Consider and refer to the Sabbath with delight

And as a sacred sanctuary Yahweh has created and set apart to be full of honor.

So honor Him and this holy day by making it your custom to not go about your own business and keep your own pleasure on this day,

Or see the Sabbath as a day that exists and has value only for your own pleasurable purposes

Or talking only about things that interest you rather than My things.

Change your attitude, perspectives, and actions regarding My Sabbath, then you will find that Yahweh will be your luxurious and gratifying delight.

And I will officially dispatch you to ride on the mountain tops of the land and to receive great honor;

And I will give you your allotted inheritance, a church endowment, and estate to occupy as your own with all of its assets and accompanying heirlooms passed down to you from your ancestors (specifically your father Jacob).

I, Yahweh, have declared this with My own mouth.