Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, say they , and thou seest not? why have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
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Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their cry ascended to God, by reason of the bondage.
Leviticus 16:31It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever.
Numbers 23:4And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
Job 34:9For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Proverbs 28:9He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Isaiah 47:6I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 58:2-3
A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. When our Lord Jesus promised to send the Comforter he added, When he shall come he shall convince ( John xvi. 7, 8 ); for… Read the whole commentary →