Isaiah 58:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You even get angry and ready to fight. No wonder God won't listen to your prayers!

Cross References

Proverbs 21:27

The Lord despises the offerings of wicked people with evil motives.

Isaiah 1:15

“No matter how much you pray, I won't listen. You are too violent.

Isaiah 3:14

He will even judge you rulers and leaders of his own nation. You destroyed his vineyard and filled your houses by robbing the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

The LORD All-Powerful says, “You have crushed my people and rubbed in the dust the faces of the poor.”

Isaiah 59:2

Your sins are the roadblock between you and your God. That's why he doesn't answer your prayers or let you see his face.

Isaiah 59:6

but you can't make clothes with those webs or hide behind them. You're sinful and brutal.

Joel 2:12

The LORD said: It isn't too late. You can still return to me with all your heart. Start crying and mourning! Go without eating.

Jonah 3:7

Then he and his officials sent out an order for everyone in the city to obey. It said: None of you or your animals may eat or drink a thing. Each of you must wear sackcloth, and you must even put sackcloth on your animals. You must also pray to the LORD God with all your heart and stop being sinful and cruel. Perhaps God will change his mind and have mercy on us, so we won't be destroyed.

Matthew 23:13

You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. You won't go in yourselves, and you keep others from going in.

Luke 20:47

But they cheat widows out of their homes and then pray long prayers just to show off. These teachers will be punished most of all.

John 18:28

It was early in the morning when Jesus was taken from Caiaphas to the building where the Roman governor stayed. But the crowd waited outside. Any of them who had gone inside would have become unclean and would not be allowed to eat the Passover meal.