Isaiah 58:5

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day? Is this it: To wind his head about like a circle and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Wilt thou call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Cross References

Zechariah 7:5

Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

Isaiah 61:2

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:

Isaiah 49:8

Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee. And I have preserved thee and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth and possess the inheritances that were destroyed.

1 Peter 2:5

Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.

Luke 4:19

To preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of reward.

2 Chronicles 20:3

And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray to the Lord: and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda.

Leviticus 16:29

And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance: The seventh month, the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no work, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you.

Isaiah 58:3

Why have we fasted: and thou hast not regarded? Have we humbled our souls: and thou hast not taken notice? Behold, in the day of your fast your own will is found: and you exact of all your debtors.

Job 2:8

And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

Ezra 10:6

And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliasib, and entered in thither. He ate no bread, and drank no water: for he mourned for the transgression of them that were come out of the captivity.

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next to his flesh.

Matthew 6:16

And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Leviticus 16:31

For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

Ezra 8:21

And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance.