Yǐsaìyàshū 58:4

4 Nǐmen jìnshí , què hùxiāng zhēngjing , yǐ xiōngè de quántou dá rén . nǐmen jīnrì jìnshí , bùdé shǐ nǐmen de shēngyīn tīng wén yú shang .

Yǐsaìyàshū 58:4 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 58:4

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate
Brawling with their servants for not doing work enough; or quarrelling with their debtors for not paying their debts; or the main of their religion lay in contentions and strifes about words, vain hot disputations about rites and ceremonies in worship, as is well known to have been the case of the reformed churches: and to smite with the fist of wickedness;
their servants or their debtors; or rather it may design the persecution of such whose consciences would not suffer them to receive the doctrines professed; or submit to ordinances as administered; or comply with rites and ceremonies enjoined by the said churches; for which they have smitten their brethren that dissented from them with the fist, or have persecuted them in a violent manner by imprisonment, confiscation of goods; all which is no other than a fist of wickedness, and highly displeasing to God, and renders all their services unacceptable in his sight; see ( Matthew 24:49 ) : ye shall not fast as ye do this day;
or, "as this day"; after this manner; this is not right: to make your voice to be heard on high;
referring either to their noisy threatening of their servants for not doing their work; or their clamorous demands upon their debtors; or to their loud prayers, joined with their fasting, which they expected to be heard in the highest heaven, but would be mistaken; for such services, attended with the above evils, are not wellpleasing to God.

Yǐsaìyàshū 58:4 In-Context

2 Tāmen tiāntiān xúnqiú wǒ , lèyì míngbai wǒde dào . hǎoxiàng xíng yì de guó mín , bù lí qì tāmen shén de diǎnzhāng , xiàng wǒ qiú wèn gōngyì de pàn yǔ , xǐyuè qīnjìn shén .

3 Tāmen shuō , wǒmen jìnshí , nǐ wèihé bú kànjian ne . wǒmen kè kǔ jǐ xīn , nǐ wèihé bù lǐ huì ne . kàn nǎ , nǐmen jìnshí de rìzi , réng qiú lì yì , lēi bī rén wèi nǐmen zuò kǔ gōng .

4 Nǐmen jìnshí , què hùxiāng zhēngjing , yǐ xiōngè de quántou dá rén . nǐmen jīnrì jìnshí , bùdé shǐ nǐmen de shēngyīn tīng wén yú shang .

5 Zhèyàng jìnshí , qǐ shì wǒ suǒ jiǎnxuǎn shǐ rén kè kǔ jǐ xīn de rìzi ma . qǐ shì jiào rén chuí tóu xiàng wĕizi , yòng má bù hé lú huī pū zaì tā yǐxià ma . nǐ zhè kĕ chēngwèi jìnshí wèi Yēhéhuá suǒ yuènà de rìzi ma .

6 Wǒ suǒ jiǎnxuǎn de jìnshí , bú shì yào sōng kāi xiōngè de shéng , jiĕ xià è shang de suǒ , shǐ beì qīyē de dé zìyóu , zhé duàn yīqiè de è ma .