George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 58:3
Will. This alone suggested their fasts, and they did not shew compassion, Ezechiel vii. 2. (Calmet) --- Debtors, who are not able to pay. (St. Jerome) (Deuteronomy xxiv. 12.)
Will. This alone suggested their fasts, and they did not shew compassion, Ezechiel vii. 2. (Calmet) --- Debtors, who are not able to pay. (St. Jerome) (Deuteronomy xxiv. 12.)
Verse Isaiah 58:3. _HAVE WE ADOPTED OUR SOUL_ - "Have we afflicted our souls"] _Twenty-seven_ MSS. (_six_ ancient) of Dr. _Kennicott's, thirty-six_ of _De Rossi's_, and _two_ of my own, and the old e...
WHEREFORE HAVE WE FASTED - They had fasted much, evidently with the expectation of delivering themselves from impending calamities, and securing the divine favor. They are here introduced as saying th...
3. JEWISH HISTORY IN THE END TIME: THEIR FUTURE GLORY AND THE GLORY OF THE COMING AGE (58-59) This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be understood and appreciated if it is studie...
FASTING, FALSE AND TRUE. Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know His will for all the world as though their one aim were to...
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ AFFLICTED OUR SOUL. Reference to Pentateuch. This is. strictly Levitical technical expression (Leviticus 16:29; Leviticus 16:31; Leviticus 23:27;...
The first half of the verse expresses the people's sense of disappointment at the failure of their efforts to win the favour of Jehovah; the second half begins the prophet's exposure of their hypocris...
BEHOLD, &C.— "You gratify your passions, especially your covetousness: you oppress the poor, and therefore are defective in the duties of justice and charity." By _labours_ are meant those riches whic...
E. WHOLENESS TO THE WISE WHO KEEP CONVENANT WITH THE LORD, CHAPTER 58 1. HEARKEN TEXT: Isaiah 58:1-5 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their trans...
Wherefore 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 labour...
58:3 labours. (d-35) i.e. 'all labours due to you.'...
2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....
The questions express surprise that the fast is without effect. FIND PLEASURE, etc.] render, 'carry on business and oppress all your labourers.' With all their professions of self-denial they are sel...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 58 WRONG PRACTICE OF RELIGION V1 (This is what God says.) ‘Shout loudly...
God uses ‘*fast’ as a picture word, to mean ‘not to do things only for oneself’. • Although the law of Moses required only one *fast a year (see Leviticus 23:27-32), the *fast was important (see 2 Sa...
WHEREFORE HAVE WE FASTED... — The words remind us of those of a much later prophet (Malachi 3:14), but the complaints of the unconscious hypocrites who are amazed that their service is not accepted as...
לָ֤מָּה צַּ֨מְנוּ֙ וְ לֹ֣א רָאִ֔יתָ עִנִּ֥ינוּ...
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
THE FAST THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN Isaiah 58:1-14 The divorce between outward rites and inward piety has been the curse of every age. When the Pharisees were plotting our Lord's death, they refused to ent...
We now commence the last division of the book, which deals with the program of peace as it sets forth the conditions, describes the ultimate realization, and insists on a principle of discrimination....
(c) Why have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find (d) pleasure, and exact all your labours...
Observe how possible it is to have a fondness for ordinances, but to be void of a spirit of grace in them. Outward observances are easily followed; but heart-renewing, heart-felt sorrow for sin, consi...
3._Wherefore have we fasted? _He proceeds farther with the same subject, and says that feigned and perverse worshippers of God are not only blinded by their hypocrisy, but likewise swell with pride, s...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...
WHEREFORE HAVE WE FASTED, SAY THEY, AND THOU SEEST NOT?.... Our fasting; takest no notice of it; expresses no approbation of it, and pleasure in it: this is put for all religious services, being what...
Wherefore 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 lab...
_Wherefore have we fasted_, &c. They complain of hard usage from God; that although they prayed, and fasted, and observed the rest of his ordinances, all which are comprehended under the title of _fas...
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, in the spirit of self-righteousness, which caused them to act as though God had been placed under obligations by their fasting, AND THOU SEEST NOT? the Lord ignorin...
A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
LABOURS: Or, things wherewith ye grieve others: _Heb._ griefs...
3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or oc...
WHEREFORE HAVE WE FASTED, SAY THEY, AND THOU SEEST NOT? They complain of hard usage from God, that although they prayed, and fasted, and kept the rest of God's ordinances, all which are synecdochicall...
Isaiah 58:3 fasted H6684 (H8804) seen H7200 (H8804) afflicted H6031 (H8765) souls H5315 notice H3045 ...
THE FAILING RESPONSE OF THE PEOPLE (ISAIAH 58:2 A) Isaiah 58:2 “Yet it is me they seek daily, And delight to know my ways. As a nation which did righteousness, And did not forsake the judgment of...
“Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And you oppress all those who labour on your behalf, Behold you fast for strife and contention, And to smite with the fist of wickedness. You do...
Isaiah 58:3 I. The Hebrew prophet's deliverance here is not in condemnation or disparagement of all fasting. The people of his day were in the habit, it appears, of denying themselves food, and assumi...
Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins._ See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God's mess...
Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as...
CONTENTS: Hypocritical professions of religion. Instructions how to keep fasts aright. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is common for unhumbled hearts, while they perform the external services of rel...
Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet._ It is not doubted by the Jews, nor by St. Jerome, that Isaiah lived to the beginning of Manasseh's idolatrous reign; nor that he...
_Wherefore have we fasted?_ FASTS Fasts were a common feature of the old Israelitish religion (1Ki 21:9; 1 Kings 21:12; Jeremiah 36:9). In Zechariah 8:19 we learn expressly that during the exile four...
_Cry aloud, spare not_ “CRY ALOUD” “Cry with the throat. ” Crying with the throat or from the lungs is here opposed to a simple motion of the lips and tongue (1 Samuel 1:13). The common version, “Cr...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:2 The worshipers of v. Isaiah 58:2 are pretending to DELIGHT in the Lord in order to gain favor with him. Meanwhile, they are mistreating their
SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.). EXPOSIT
Cry aloud, spare not (Isaiah 58:1), The Lord is commanding now the prophet Isaiah. lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet t...
Daniel 10:2; Daniel 10:3; Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:24; Isaiah 47:6;...
Afflicted — Defrauded our appetites with fasting, of which this phrase is used, Leviticus 16:29. Ye find — Either you indulge yourselves in sensuality, as they did, Isaiah 22:13. But this does not agr...