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.
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And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: …
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. …
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-7)Here we have, I. The displeasure which these hypocrites conceived against God for not accepting the services which they themselves had a mighty opinion of (Isa. 58:3): Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not ? Thus they went in the way of Cain, who was angry at God, and resented it as a gross affront that his offering was not accepted. Having gone about to put a cheat upon God by th…
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