Isaiah 58:4
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
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.
Note ye shall…: or, ye fast not as this day
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- ye fast
- 1 Kings 21:9–13; Proverbs 21:27; Matthew 6:16; Matthew 23:14; Luke 20:47; John 18:28
- and to smite
- Acts 23:1, 2; Philippians 1:14, 15
- shall not fast as ye do this day
- or, fast not as this day.to make.
- Joel 2:13, 14; Jonah 3:7; Matthew 6:16–18