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Isaiah 58:2-3 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 58 · verses 2–3
2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 3Wherefore 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.Isaiah 58:2-3 · King James Version
Isaiah 58:2-3 in context
1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew 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 did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3Wherefore 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.
4Behold, 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.
5Is it such a 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? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
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Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnesstsᵉdâqâhrightness , subjectively , objectively , morally or figurativelyH6666 →
- ordinancemishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- afflictedʻânâhto depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6031 →
- knowledgeyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- pleasurechêphetspleasureH2656 →
- delightchâphêtsproperly, to incline toH2654 →
- forsookʻâzabto loosenH5800 →
- nationgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
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When our Lord Jesus promised to send the Comforter he added, When he shall come he shall convince (Joh 16:7, Joh 16:8); for conviction must prepare for comfort, and must also separate between the precious and the vile, and mark out those to whom comfort does not belong.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-2