George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 58:4
Strife. The usual works were interrupted. The Church formerly forbade law-suits on fast-days. --- Fist. Matthew xviii. 28. --- Wickedly. Septuagint, "the humble."
Strife. The usual works were interrupted. The Church formerly forbade law-suits on fast-days. --- Fist. Matthew xviii. 28. --- Wickedly. Septuagint, "the humble."
Verse Isaiah 58:4. _YE FAST FOR STRIFE AND DEBATE_] How often is this the case! A whole nation are called to fast to implore God's blessing on wars carried on for the purposes of wrath and ambition....
BEHOLD, YE FAST FOR STRIFE AND DEBATE - This is a third characteristic of their manner of fasting, and a third reason why God did not regard and accept it. They were divided into parties and factions,...
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...
YE FAST. Referring to Day of Atonement, which was still observed; and in the Land, not in exile, as alleged. WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew. _rasha'_ App-44. YE SHALL NOT. Some codices, with two ea...
_ye fast for strife and_ CONTENTION (R.V.)] The fasting made them as irritable as Arabs in the month of Ramadan; it produced a quarrelsome temper which even led to open violence, "smiting with godless...
YE SHALL NOT FAST, &C.— _Ye fast not this day, so as to make your voice_ [or _prayers_] _to be heard above._ Isaiah 58:5. _Is it such a fast as I should choose, a day,_ &c....
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...
Behold, 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. YE SHALL NOT FAST AS (YE DO THIS) DAY,...
2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....
FOR STRIFE] i.e. strife is the result of this formal fasting. YE SHALL NOT, etc.] RV 'ye fast not this day so as to make your voice,' etc. 5-7. Literal fasting is not here excluded, but the prophet de...
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...
BEHOLD, YE FAST FOR STRIFE AND DEBATE. — The words possibly point to the psychological fact that an unspiritual fasting irritates the nerves and embitters the temper. Extremes meet, and the disputes o...
הֵ֣ן לְ רִ֤יב וּ מַצָּה֙ תָּצ֔וּמוּ וּ
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....
Behold, 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 (e) heard on high. (e) So long as you use contention a...
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...
4._Behold, for strife and contention ye fast. _This verse ought to be connected with the end of the preceding verse; for, having in the former clause introduced hypocrites as complaining of the violen...
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...
BEHOLD, YE FAST FOR STRIFE AND DEBATE,.... Brawling with their servants for not doing work enough; or quarrelling with their debtors for not paying their debts; or the main of their religion lay in co...
Behold, 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. Ver. 4. _Behold._] Take notice whence i...
_Behold, ye fast for strife_ Your fasting days, wherein you ought, in a special manner, to implore the mercy of God, and to show compassion to men, you employ in injuring or quarrelling with your bret...
A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, while they were practicing their wicked oppression, they made a great show of their supposed piety, AND TO SMITE WITH THE FIST OF WICKEDNESS, not hesitating even...
YE SHALL NOT FAST AS YE DO THIS DAY: Or, ye fast not as this day...
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...
YE FAST FOR STRIFE AND DEBATE; your fasting days, wherein you ought in a special manner to implore the mercy of God, and to show compassion to men, you employ in a great measure in injuring or quarrel...
Isaiah 58:4 fast H6684 (H8799) strife H7379 debate H4683 strike H5221 (H8687) fist H106 wickedness H7562 fast...
“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...
_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...
_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...
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
PERIODICAL FASTS Isaiah 58:4. _Ye shall not fast as ye do this day._ Periodical fasts, such as the Ritualists would have us keep in Lent, instead of being well pleasing in the sight of God, are offen...
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...
1 Kings 21:9; Acts 23:1; Acts 23:2; Joel 2:13; Joel 2:14;...
Behold — Your fasting days, wherein you ought in a special manner to implore the mercy of God, and to shew compassion to men, you employ in injuring or quarrelling with your brethren, your servants or...