Isaiah 58:4

Modern English Version

Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!

Isaiah 1:15

When you reach out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and the princes of His people: For you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that you beat My people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord God of Hosts.

Isaiah 59:2

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and an act of violence is in their hands.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, declares the Lord, return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.

Jonah 3:7

Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh: “By decree of the king and his nobles: No man or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not eat or drink water.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

Luke 20:47

who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive greater condemnation.”

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. Yet they themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.