Isaiah 58:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ You fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ [The facts are that] you fast only for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Fasting as you do today will not cause your voice to be heard on high.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ You quarrel and brawl, and then you fast; you hit each other violently with your fists. You shouldn’t fast as you are doing today if you want to make your voice heard on high.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Behold, you fast with strife and contention, and you strike with the fist impiously. Do not choose to fast as you have done even to this day. Then your outcry will be heard on high.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Behold, you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high.

Isaiah 58:4 Krydshenvisninger

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when brought with evil intent.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 59:2

Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs cannot serve as clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Jonah 3:7

Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

Luke 20:47

They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

John 18:28

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover.