Isaiah 58:3-5

3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.
4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?

Cross References 10

  • 1. S Leviticus 16:29
  • 2. S Exodus 10:3; S 2 Chronicles 6:37; Jeremiah 44:10
  • 3. Malachi 3:14
  • 4. Isaiah 22:13; Zechariah 7:5-6
  • 5. 1 Kings 21:9-13; Isaiah 59:6; Jeremiah 6:7; Ezekiel 7:11; Malachi 2:16
  • 6. S 1 Samuel 8:18; Isaiah 59:2; Lamentations 3:44; Ezekiel 8:18; Micah 3:4
  • 7. Zechariah 7:5
  • 8. 1 Kings 21:27; Matthew 6:16
  • 9. S Isaiah 36:6
  • 10. S Job 2:8
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