Isaiah 58:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the  Lord?

Cross References

Zechariah 7:5

‘Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the year of the  Lord’s favour, and the day of our God’s vengeance; to comfort  all who mourn,

Isaiah 49:8

This is what the  Lord  says: I will answer you in a time of favour, and I will help you in the day of salvation. I will keep you, and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to make them possess the desolate inheritances,

1 Peter 2:5

you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood  to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God  through Jesus Christ.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed  to this age,  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,  so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will  of God.

Luke 4:19

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.   ,

Esther 4:16

‘Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days,  night or day. I and my female servants will also fast  in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law.  If I perish, I perish.’

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved  to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast  for all Judah,

Leviticus 16:29

‘This is to be a permanent statute  for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practise self-denial  and do no work,  both the native and the foreigner  who resides among you.

Isaiah 58:3

‘Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed! ’ ‘Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.

Job 2:8

Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.

Esther 4:3

There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict  reached. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Ezra 10:6

Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.  He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the woman’s words he tore his clothes.  Then, as he was passing by on the wall, the people saw that there was sackcloth  under his clothes next to his skin.

Matthew 6:16

‘Whenever you fast, don’t be gloomy like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces   so that their fasting is obvious to people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.

Leviticus 16:31

It is a Sabbath  of complete rest for you,  and you must practise self-denial; it is a permanent statute.

Ezra 8:21

I proclaimed a fast  by the River Ahava,  so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.