Isaiah 58:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Have we fasted

Luke 18:9

Afflicted

Leviticus 16:29

Leviticus 23:27

Psalm 69:10

Exact

Labours

Isaiah 47:6

Exodus 2:23

General references

Isaiah 57:12

James 1:7

Bible References

Have we fasted

And God cometh unto Balaam, and he saith unto Him, 'The seven altars I have arranged, and I offer a bullock and a ram on the altar;'

Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

'Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying:

Ye have said, 'A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

and having received it, they were murmuring against the householder, saying,

and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

Afflicted

And it hath been to you for a statute age-during, in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, ye humble yourselves, and do no work -- the native, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst;

Only -- on the tenth of this seventh month is a day of atonements; ye have a holy convocation, and ye have humbled yourselves, and have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah;

And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me.

Exact

and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, 'Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,

Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

to send out each his man-servant, and each his maid-servant -- the Hebrew and the Hebrewess -- free, so as not to lay service on them, any on a Jew his brother;

'And, that servant having come forth, found one of his fellow-servants who was owing him an hundred denaries, and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which thou owest.

Labours

I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,

And it cometh to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dieth, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goeth up unto God, because of the service;

General references

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --