Isaiah 58:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.”
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“You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as <FI>to<Fi> -day, To sound in the high place your voice.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 58:4 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 21:9In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
- Proverbs 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!
- Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
- Isaiah 59:6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
- Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
- Jonah 3:7Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
- Matthew 6:16When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
- Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- Luke 20:47They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- John 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
- Acts 23:1Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
- Philippians 1:14And most of the brothers, confident in the Lord by my chains, now dare more greatly to speak the word without fear.
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