Isaiah 58:4
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 58 connects to 10 cross-references. Critique of fasting performed hypocritically while practicing oppression. The true fast God chooses is to loose unjust bonds, free the oppressed, share bread with the hungry, and bring homeless poor into the house. Then light will break forth and the …
Other Translations
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as <FI>to<Fi> -day, To sound in the high place your voice.
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
Cross References
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against …
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that …
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, …
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and …
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a …
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, …
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they …
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which …