Isaiah 58:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

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  • Joel 2:13-14 : 13 Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment. 14 May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
  • 1 Kgs 21:9-9 : 9 And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people; 10 And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death. 11 So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them. 12 They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people. 13 And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
  • Isa 59:6 : 6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
  • Jonah 3:7 : 7 And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:
  • Matt 6:16-18 : 16 And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward. 17 But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean; 18 So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
  • Luke 20:47 : 47 Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
  • John 18:28 : 28 So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.
  • Acts 23:1-2 : 1 And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day. 2 And the high priest, Ananias, gave orders to those who were near him to give him a blow on the mouth.
  • Phil 1:14-15 : 14 And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear. 15 Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 58:1-3
    3 verses
    86%

    1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

    2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

    3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

  • Isa 58:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

    6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

    7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

  • Matt 6:16-18
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    16 And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

    17 But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

    18 So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

  • Jer 14:12
    72%

    12 When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

  • Ps 58:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David.> Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?

    2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

  • Joel 1:13-15
    3 verses
    70%

    13 Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

    14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

    15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

  • Zech 7:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

    6 And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

  • Isa 1:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

    16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

  • Ezek 34:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

    4 You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.

  • Isa 58:9-10
    2 verses
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    9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

    10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

  • Isa 3:15
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    15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Jer 4:8
    68%

    8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Zech 8:18-19
    2 verses
    68%

    18 And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

    19 This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.

  • Amos 8:4
    68%

    4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

  • Hos 4:4
    68%

    4 Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.

  • Jer 4:18
    68%

    18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

  • Mal 2:17
    67%

    17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

  • Isa 57:4
    67%

    4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • Neh 13:18
    67%

    18 Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.

  • Mal 1:13
    67%

    13 And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.

  • Isa 58:13
    67%

    13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

  • Amos 5:11
    67%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Joel 2:12
    67%

    12 But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

  • Isa 59:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2 But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

    3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

  • Matt 9:14
    67%

    14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

  • Mic 3:4
    67%

    4 Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

  • Mal 2:13
    67%

    13 And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.

  • Jer 7:17
    66%

    17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Mic 6:14
    66%

    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Hos 9:5
    66%

    5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Jer 22:17
    66%

    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Mark 2:18
    66%

    18 And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?

  • Mal 1:8
    66%

    8 And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

  • Job 22:7
    66%

    7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • Hab 1:3
    66%

    3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.