Isaiah 58:3

The Scriptures 1998

They say, ‘Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?’ “Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your labourers.

Cross References

Ezra 8:21

I then proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahawa, to humble ourselves before our Elohim, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions,

Nehemiah 5:7

And my heart ruled over me, and I strove with the nobles and with the deputy rulers, and said to them, “You are exacting interest, each one from his brother.” And I called a great assembly against them,

Job 34:9

For he has said, ‘It does not profit a man that he takes delight in Elohim.’

Psalm 69:10

And I wept in my being with fasting, And it became my reproach.

Proverbs 28:9

He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Master יהוה  of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:13

Then see! Joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Isaiah 47:6

“I was wroth with My people, I have profaned My inheritance and I gave them into your hand. You showed them no compassion, you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

Leviticus 16:29

“And this shall be for you a law forever: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you afflict your beings, and do no work, the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.

Leviticus 16:31

“It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you shall afflict your beings – a law forever.

Leviticus 23:27

“On the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be a set-apart gathering for you. And you shall afflict your beings, and shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה.

Malachi 3:14

“You have said, ‘It is worthless to serve Elohim. And what did we gain when we guarded His Charge, and when we walked as mourners before יהוה  of hosts?

Numbers 23:4

And Elohim came to Bilʽ

Luke 15:29

“And answering, he said to his father, ‘See, these many years I have been serving you, and I have never transgressed a command of yours, but to me you have never given a young goat, so I could rejoice with my friends.