Isaiah 58:3

Tree of Life Version

“Why have we fasted. yet You do not see? Why have we afflicted our souls, yet You take no notice?” “Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.

Cross References

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the Ahava River so that we might humble ourselves before our God and seek from Him a straight way for us, our little ones, and all of our possessions.

Nehemiah 5:7

I pondered them in my heart and then I opposed the nobles and the officials, saying to them, “Usury! Each of you is putting his brother in debt!” So I convened a great assembly to deal with them.

Job 34:9

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

Psalm 69:10

For zeal for Your House consumed me— the insults of those who insulted You have fallen on me.

Proverbs 28:9

One who turns his ear from hearing Torah —even his prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 22:12

Now in that day, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will call for weeping and wailing, for baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:13

But instead, there is joy and gladness, slaughtering cattle and killing sheep, meat and drinking wine! “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die!”

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people. I profaned My heritage. I gave them into your hand, but you showed them no mercy. You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.

Leviticus 16:29

“It is to be a statute to you forever, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you are to afflict your souls, and do no kind of work—both the native-born and the outsider dwelling among you.

Leviticus 16:31

It is a Shabbat of solemn rest to you, and you are to afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

Leviticus 23:27

“However, the tenth day of this seventh month is Yom Kippur, a holy convocation to you, so you are to afflict yourselves. You are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai.

Malachi 3:14

You say: “Serving God is worthless.” Also: “What good is it that we kept His service or that we walked as mourners before Adonai-Tzva’ot?

Numbers 23:4

God met with Balaam and he said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I offered a bull and a ram.”

Luke 15:29

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look, so many years I’ve slaved away for you—not once did I ignore your order. Yet you’ve never given me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.