Isaiah 58:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You wonder why the LORD pays no attention when you go without eating and act humble. But on those same days that you give up eating, you think only of yourselves and abuse your workers.

Cross References

Ezra 8:21

Beside the River Ahava, I asked the people to go without eating and to pray. We humbled ourselves and asked God to bring us and our children safely to Jerusalem with all our possessions.

Nehemiah 5:7

So I thought it over and said to the leaders and officials, “How can you charge your own people interest?” Then I called a public meeting and accused the leaders

Job 34:9

because he has said, “It doesn't pay to please God.”

Psalm 69:10

I cried and went without food, but they still insulted me.

Proverbs 28:9

God cannot stand the prayers of anyone who disobeys his Law.

Isaiah 22:12

When all this happened, the LORD All-Powerful told you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads, and wear sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:13

But instead, you celebrated by feasting on beef and lamb and by drinking wine, because you said, “Let's eat and drink! Tomorrow we may die.”

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people. So I let you take their land and bring disgrace on them. You showed them no mercy, but were especially cruel to those who were old.

Leviticus 16:29

On the tenth day of the seventh month of each year, you must go without eating to show sorrow for your sins, and no one, including foreigners who live among you, is allowed to work.

Leviticus 16:31

and from now on, it must be celebrated each year. Go without eating and make this a day of complete rest just like the Sabbath.

Leviticus 23:27

The tenth day of the seventh month is the Great Day of Forgiveness. It is a solemn day of worship; everyone must go without eating to show sorrow for their sins, and sacrifices must be burnt.

Malachi 3:14

Here is what you have said: “It's foolish to serve the LORD God All-Powerful. What do we get for obeying him and from going around looking sad?

Numbers 23:4

When God appeared to him, Balaam said, “I have built seven altars and have sacrificed a bull and a ram on each one.”

Luke 15:29

But he said to his father, “For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends.