Isaiah 58:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifices of the impious are abominable, because they are offered out of wickedness.

Isaiah 1:15

And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and with their leaders. For you have been devouring the vineyard, and the plunder from the poor is in your house.

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you wear down my people, and grind up the faces of the poor, says the Lord, the God of hosts?

Isaiah 59:2

But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.

Isaiah 59:6

Their weavings will not be for clothing, nor will they cover themselves with their handiwork. Their works are useless things, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.

Joel 2:12

Now, therefore, the Lord says: "Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning."

Jonah 3:7

And he cried out and spoke: "In Nineveh, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, let it be said: Men and beasts and oxen and sheep may not taste anything. Neither shall they feed or drink water.

Matthew 23:13

So then: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you close the kingdom of heaven before men. For you yourselves do not enter, and those who are entering, you would not permit to enter.

Luke 20:47

who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayers. These will receive the greater damnation."

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium. Now it was morning, and so they did not enter into the praetorium, so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.