Isaiah 58:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 58

⁶Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Isaiah 58:6 —

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Nehemiah 5:10-12
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. …
Isaiah 58:9
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
Jeremiah 34:8-11
This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; …
1 Timothy 6:1
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
Micah 3:2-4
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; …

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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 the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. loose ... bands of wickedness--that is, to dissolve every tie wherewith one has unjustly bound his fellow men (Le 25:49, &c.). Servitude, a fraudulent contract, &c. undo ... heavy burdens--Hebrew, “loose the bands of the yoke.” oppressed--literally, “the broken.” The expression, “to let go free,” implies that those “broken” with the yoke of slavery, are meant (Ne 5:10-12; Jr 34:9-11, 14, 16). J…