Satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land...

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the opressed free and break every yoke?

It is not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wonderer
with shelter - when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from
your own flesh and blood?

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly
appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord
will be your rear guard.

Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will
say: Here I am.  If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing
finger and malicous talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the need of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.

The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a
sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.  You will be like
a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:6-11