Isaiah 58:4

The Scriptures 1998

“Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wrongness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:27

The slaughtering of the wrong is an abomination; How much more when he brings it with wickedness!

Isaiah 1:15

“And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood.

Isaiah 3:14

יהוה  enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

“What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Master, יהוה  of hosts.

Isaiah 59:2

But your crookednesses have separated you from your Elohim. And your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs do not become garments, nor do they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of wickedness, and a deed of violence is in their hands.

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” declares יהוה, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

Jonah 3:7

And he proclaimed and said throughout Ninewĕ

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Luke 20:47

who devour widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. They shall receive greater judgment.”

John 18:28

Then they led יהושע  from Qayapha to the palace, and it was early. And they themselves did not go into the palace, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.