Isaiah 58:5
Is this really the kind of fast that I would want: A day for anybody to humble himself, 1 for him to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? 1 Do you really call this a fast, a day that pleases Yahweh? 1
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1 Kings 21:27When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body and fasted, and lay in sackcloth and became very sad.
2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat became afraid and set himself to seek Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Nehemiah 9:1Now on the twenty-fourth day of the same month the people of Israel were assembled and they were fasting, and they were wearing sackcloth, and they put dust on their heads.
Esther 4:16“Go, gather together all the Jews who live in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My young girls and I will fast in the same way. Then I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
Psalms 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, at a time that you will accept; 1 answer me in the trustworthiness of your salvation. 1
Isaiah 58:3'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'but you do not see it? Why have we humbled ourselves, but you do not notice?' 1 Look, on the day of your fast you find your own pleasure and oppress all your laborers. 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 58:4-8
A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 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… Read the whole commentary →