Isaiah 58:5

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Is the fast I choose, a day for a man to afflict his soul? To bow his head down like a bulrush, and he spreads sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day of delight to Jehovah?

Cross References

2 Kings 6:30

And it happened when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his garments. And he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked. And, behold, the sackcloth was inside on his flesh.

2 Chronicles 20:3

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set his face to seek to Jehovah, and proclaimed a fast over all Judah.

Ezra 10:6

And Ezra rose up from before the house of God and went into the room of Johanan the son of Eliashib. And he went there, and he did not eat food, nor did he drink, for he mourned for the perfidy of the exiles.

Ezra 8:21

And I called a fast there at the river Ahava, so that we might humble ourselves before our God, in order to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our goods.

Esther 4:16

Go, gather all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast for me. And do not eat or drink three days, night or day. My maidens and I will also fast in this way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I have perished, I have perished.

Esther 4:3

And in every province, at the place where the king’s word and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping and wailing. Sackcloth and ashes were spread on many.

Job 2:8

And he took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with it. And he was sitting among the ashes.

Psalm 69:13

But as for Me, My prayer is to You, O Jehovah, at a time of favor, O God! in the plenitude of Your mercy answer Me, in the truth of Your salvation.

Isaiah 49:8

So says Jehovah: In a favorable time I have answered You, and in a day of salvation I have helped You. And I will preserve You, and give You for a covenant of the people; to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolated inheritances;

Isaiah 58:3

They say, Why have we fasted, and You did not see? We have afflicted our soul, and You did not know. Behold, on the day of your fast you find pleasure; and you drive all your laborers hard.

Isaiah 61:2

to call out the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all those mourning;

Leviticus 16:29

And it shall be for a never-ending statute, in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, you shall humble yourself and do no work, the native, and the alien who is staying in your midst.

Leviticus 16:31

It is a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall humble yourself. It is a never-ending statute.

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 seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?

Matthew 6:16

And when you fast, do not be as the hypocrites, with sullen face, for they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you that they have their reward.

Luke 4:19

“to preach an acceptable year of the Lord.” Isa. 61:1, 2

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, in order to prove by you what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

1 Peter 2:5

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