Isaiah 58:3

Modern King James Version

They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.

Cross References

Ezra 8:21

Then 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.

Nehemiah 5:7

And my heart within myself ruled, and I rebuked the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact interest, each one from his brother. And I held a great gathering against them.

Job 34:9

For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is accepted with God.

Psalm 69:10

When I humbled my soul with fasting, it turned to my reproach.

Proverbs 28:9

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is a hateful thing.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:13

Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.

Leviticus 16:29

And it shall be a statute forever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, the native and the alien who is staying among you.

Leviticus 16:31

It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.

Leviticus 23:27

Also, on the tenth of this seventh month, this is a day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. And you shall afflict your souls and offer a fire offering to Jehovah.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, It is vain to serve God; and, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?

Numbers 23:4

And God met Balaam. And he said to Him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon the altar a bull and a ram.

Luke 15:29

And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.