Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
You do not fast like you do today to
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
to strike viciously with your fist.
You cannot fast as you do today,
hoping to make your voice heard on high.
International Standard Version
"Look! You fast only for quarreling, and for fighting, and for hitting with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice heard on high.
A Conservative Version
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Ye do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“The facts are that you fast only for strife and brawling and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You do not fast as you do today to make your voice heard on high.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to cause your voice to be heard on high.
Julia Smith Translation
behold, for contention and strife ye will fast, and to strike with the fist of injustice: ye shall not fast as today to cause your voice to be heard on high.
King James 2000
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 to be heard on high.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}. You shall not fast as [you do] {today}, to {make your voice heard} on the height.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness; you shall not fast as you do today, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold when ye fast, ye can find your own lusts, and can call cruelly on all your debtors. Ye fast to law and strive and to smite with fist wickedly. Fast not as ye now do, to make your voice to be heard upon high.
NET Bible
Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! for strife and contention, ye fast, And to smite with the fist of lawlessness, - Ye shall not fast as to-day, To cause to be heard on high your voice!
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as to -day, To sound in the high place your voice.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 58:4
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Context Readings
True Fasts And Sabbaths
3
Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not
Behold, on the
And drive hard all your workers.
You do not fast like you do today to
Is it for bowing
And for spreading out
Will you call this a fast, even an
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 21:9-13
Now she wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people;
Joel 2:13-14
Now return to the Lord your God,
For He is
Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness
And
Proverbs 21:27
How much more when he brings it with evil intent!
Isaiah 59:2
And your sins have hidden His
Isaiah 59:6
Nor will they
Their
And an
Jonah 3:7
He issued a
Matthew 6:16-18
Matthew 23:13
Luke 20:47
John 18:28
Acts 23:1-2
Paul, looking intently at
Philippians 1:14-15
and that most of the