Isaiah 58:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Is 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?

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  • Neh 5:10-12 : 10 I likewise, and my brethren and my servants, could demand money and grain from them. I pray you, let us stop this interest. 11 Restore to them, I pray you, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil, that you are charging them. 12 Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.
  • Isa 58:9 : 9 Then 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;
  • Jer 34:8-9 : 8 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them: 9 That every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should enslave them, a Jew his brother. 10 Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, and that none should enslave themselves anymore, they obeyed and let them go. 11 But afterward they turned and forced the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
  • Mic 3:2-4 : 2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron. 4 Then 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.
  • 1 Tim 6:1 : 1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke consider their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed.

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  • Isa 58:1-5
    5 verses
    87%

    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.

    4Behold, 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.

    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?

  • Isa 58:7-10
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    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?

    8Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

    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 61:1-2
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    1The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

    2To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

  • Isa 1:16-17
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    16Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

    17Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

  • Nah 1:13
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    13Now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.

  • Isa 58:13
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    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:

  • Jer 30:8
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    8For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more enslave him.

  • Joel 1:14
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    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,

  • Zech 7:5
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    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?

  • Zech 8:18-19
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    69%

    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.

  • Isa 51:14
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    14The captive exile hastens to be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

  • Luke 4:18-19
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    18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

    19to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

  • Isa 42:7
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    7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

  • Isa 9:4
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    4For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

  • Isa 49:9
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    9That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

  • Jer 34:15
    69%

    15And you had now turned and done what was right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name.

  • Jer 34:17
    69%

    17Therefore thus says the LORD: You have not listened to me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Jer 50:33
    69%

    33Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all who took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

  • Jer 14:12
    68%

    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.

  • Jer 40:4
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    4And now, behold, I release you this day from the chains which were upon your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come; and I will look well to you: but if it seems bad to you to come with me to Babylon, hold back: behold, all the land is before you: wherever it seems good and convenient for you to go, there go.

  • Matt 6:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    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,

  • Isa 3:15
    68%

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

  • Mic 6:8
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    8He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

  • Ezek 18:7
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    7And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

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    67%

    27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

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    16Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

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    7Who executes judgment for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners:

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    1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • Isa 1:12-13
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    12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

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    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

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

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    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.

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    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

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    14And shall say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

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    3And it will come to pass in the day that the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,