Isaiah 58:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵ Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the  Lord?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Is such a fast as yours what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself with sorrow in his soul? [Is true fasting merely mechanical?] Is it only to bow down his head like a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him [to indicate a condition of heart that he does not have]? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?

Common English Bible

⁵ Is this the kind of fast I choose, a day of self-affliction, of bending one’s head like a reed and of lying down in mourning clothing and ashes? Is this what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Is this a fast such as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day, to contort his head in a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Should you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day? Is this it: To wind his head about like a circle and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Wilt thou call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Isaiah 58:5 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the woman’s words he tore his clothes.  Then, as he was passing by on the wall, the people saw that there was sackcloth  under his clothes next to his skin.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved  to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast  for all Judah,

Ezra 10:6

Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.  He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

Ezra 8:21

I proclaimed a fast  by the River Ahava,  so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.

Esther 4:16

‘Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days,  night or day. I and my female servants will also fast  in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law.  If I perish, I perish.’

Esther 4:3

There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict  reached. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Job 2:8

Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.

Isaiah 49:8

This is what the  Lord  says: I will answer you in a time of favour, and I will help you in the day of salvation. I will keep you, and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to make them possess the desolate inheritances,

Isaiah 58:3

‘Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed! ’ ‘Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the year of the  Lord’s favour, and the day of our God’s vengeance; to comfort  all who mourn,

Leviticus 16:29

‘This is to be a permanent statute  for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practise self-denial  and do no work,  both the native and the foreigner  who resides among you.

Leviticus 16:31

It is a Sabbath  of complete rest for you,  and you must practise self-denial; it is a permanent statute.

Zechariah 7:5

‘Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

Matthew 6:16

‘Whenever you fast, don’t be gloomy like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces   so that their fasting is obvious to people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.

Luke 4:19

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.   ,

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed  to this age,  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,  so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will  of God.

1 Peter 2:5

you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood  to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God  through Jesus Christ.