Isaiah 58:3
therefore have we fasted, , and you seest not? have we afflicted our soul, and you takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
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1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their Elohim: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to Elohim.
3 therefore have we fasted, , and you seest not? have we afflicted our soul, and you takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes ? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Yahuah?