You will call and I – I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.

Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?

at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:

indeed, if you call out for discernment – raise your voice for understanding –

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding a close relative,

She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places of the city.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

Look, you will summon nations you did not previously know; nations that did not previously know you will run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he bestows honor on you.

Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond; you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’ You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

ת (Tav) As if it were a feast day, you call enemies to terrify me on every side. On the day of the Lord’s anger no one escaped or survived. My enemy has finished off those healthy infants whom I bore and raised.

when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.

Is this really the kind of fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the Lord?