Isaiah 58:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, you fast for strife and debate and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high.

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  • Joel 2:13-14 : 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil. 14 Who knows if he will turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God?
  • 1 Kgs 21:9-9 : 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: 10 And set two men, worthless fellows, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him, that he may die. 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters she had sent to them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent?
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
  • Isa 59:6 : 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
  • Jonah 3:7 : 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water.
  • Matt 6:16-18 : 16 Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to fast. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that you do not appear to men to fast, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Luke 20:47 : 47 Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: they will receive greater condemnation.
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment, and it was early. But they themselves did not go into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
  • Acts 23:1-2 : 1 Paul, earnestly looking at the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
  • Phil 1:14-15 : 14 And most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. 15 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 58:1-3
    3 verses
    86%

    1Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

    2Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice and take delight in approaching God.

    3Why have we fasted, they say, and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and exact all your labors.

  • Isa 58:5-7
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    82%

    5Is this the 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? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

    6Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

    7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh?

  • Matt 6:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

    16Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to fast. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.

    17But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

    18that you do not appear to men to fast, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

  • Jer 14:12
    72%

    12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

  • Ps 58:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Joel 1:13-15
    3 verses
    70%

    13Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

    14Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

    15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

  • Zech 7:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you at all fast to Me, even to Me?

    6And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

  • Isa 1:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

    16Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

  • Ezek 34:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3You eat the fat, and clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you do not feed the flock.

    4The diseased you have not strengthened, nor have you healed that which was sick, nor have you bound up that which was broken, nor have you brought back that which was driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty you have ruled them.

  • Isa 58:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9Then you shall call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, and speaking vanity;

    10And if you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noonday:

  • Isa 3:15
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    15What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

  • Jer 4:8
    68%

    8For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • Zech 8:18-19
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    68%

    18And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

    19Thus says the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

  • Amos 8:4
    68%

    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Hos 4:4
    68%

    4Yet let no one strive, nor reprove another, for your people are like those who contend with the priest.

  • Jer 4:18
    68%

    18Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

  • Mal 2:17
    67%

    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • Isa 57:4
    67%

    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Neh 13:18
    67%

    18Did not your fathers do this, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.

  • Mal 1:13
    67%

    13You said also, Behold, what a weariness it is! and you have sneered at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought what was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this from your hand? says the LORD.

  • Isa 58:13
    67%

    13If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:

  • Amos 5:11
    67%

    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Joel 2:12
    67%

    12Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

  • Isa 59:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

  • Matt 9:14
    67%

    14Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but your disciples do not fast?

  • Mic 3:4
    67%

    4Then they shall cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their deeds.

  • Mal 2:13
    67%

    13And this you have done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and crying out, so much that he regards not the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.

  • Jer 7:17
    66%

    17Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Mic 6:14
    66%

    14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • Hos 9:5
    66%

    5What will you do in the appointed day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

  • Jer 22:17
    66%

    17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • Mark 2:18
    66%

    18And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. And they came and said to him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?

  • Mal 1:8
    66%

    8And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept you? says the LORD of hosts.

  • Job 22:7
    66%

    7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Hab 1:3
    66%

    3Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention.