To take care of poor and weak people in society is to practise *self-denial. This what the *Lord calls a true *fast.
• The *Lord approves of those who take care of other people in this way. They will find that the *Lord takes care of them (see Luke 6:38).
• Among his other benefits, the *Lord will protect and guide. This is what he did in ancient times, by cloud and fire in the desert (see Exodus 13:21; see also Isaiah 9:2 and Isaiah 60:1-3).
Verse Isaiah 58:6. _LET THE OPPRESSED GO FREE_] How can any nation pretend to fast or worship God at all, or dare to profess that they believe in the existence of such a Being, while they carry on th...
IS NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? - Fasting is right and proper; but that which God approves will prompt to, and will be followed by, deeds of justice, kindness, charity. The prophet proceeds t...
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...
BANDS. pangs. See note on Psalms 73:4....
Description of the true fast in which Jehovah delights. The duties enjoined fall under two heads: (1) abstinence from every form of oppression (Isaiah 58:6), and (2) the exercise of positive beneficen...
DISCOURSE: 993 THE SERVICES WHICH GOD REQUIRES Isaiah 58:5. Is 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...
2. HOLINESS TEXT: Isaiah 58:6-12 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break ever...
Is 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? TO LOOSE THE BANDS OF WICKEDNE...
2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....
THE HEAVY BURDENS] RV 'the bands of the yoke.'...
TO LOOSE THE BANDS OF WICKEDNESS. — The words do not exclude abstinence from food as an act of discipline and victory over self-indulgence, but declare its insufficiency by itself. So in the practice...
הֲ לֹ֣וא זֶה֮ צֹ֣ום אֶבְחָרֵהוּ֒ פַּתֵּ֨חַ֙ ח
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....
[Is] 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 (f) yoke? (f) That you leave off all...
_Bands. Contracts of usury, &c. (Calmet)_...
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...
6._Is not this the fast which I have chosen? _The Prophet shows what are the real duties of piety, and what God chiefly recommends to us; namely, to relieve those who are wretched and pressed with a h...
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...
IS NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN?.... Which God has appointed, he approves of, and is well pleasing in his sight; these are works and services more agreeable to him, which follow, without which...
__ Isaiah 58:6 _[Is] 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?_ Ver. 6. _Is n...
_Is not this the fast that I have chosen?_ Or _approve_, as before, Isaiah 58:5. Or ought not such a fast to be accompanied with such things as these? He now proceeds to show the concomitants of a tru...
Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to release the oppressed laborers, TO UNDO THE HEAVY BURDENS, which these tyrants had laid upon their men as upon pack-animal...
A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
THE HEAVY BURDENS: _ Heb._ the bundles of the yoke OPPRESSED: _ Heb._ broken...
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...
IS NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? or, _approve_, as before, ISAIAH 58:5: or, Ought not such a fast to be accompanied with such things as these? where he is now about to show the concomitants of...
Isaiah 58:6 fast H6685 chosen H977 (H8799) loose H6605 (H8763) bonds H2784 wickedness H7562 undo H5425 ...
THE CALL TO COVENANT RIGHTEOUSNESS (ISAIAH 58:6). Isaiah 58:6 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen, To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed g...
Isaiah 58:6 This passage is one of those in which the purity and holiness peculiar to the Gospel seem to be foretokened in the morality of the prophetic canon. Isaiah has been termed the Evangelical P...
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...
_Is it such a fast that I have chosen?_ THE FAST WHICH GOD HAS CHOSEN I. GOD’S PURPOSE IN COMMANDING MEN TO FAST. 1. To lead us to prayer (Isaiah 58:4), prayer so real that our voices are “heard on...
_Is not this the fast that I have chosen?_ PRACTICAL FASTING In reply to the question, how the acts here mentioned could be described as fasting, J. D. Michaelis says that they are all to be conside...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:6 God defines the kind of spiritual faithfulness that brings his blessing (compare Isaiah 1:17; James
A PLEA FOR THE DISTRESSED Isaiah 58:6. _Is not this the fast that I have chosen? &c._ In the former verses of this chapter we have a description of the state of heart of the Jewish people in the cour...
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 Timothy 6:1; Jeremiah 34:8; Micah 3:2; Nehemiah 5:10...
The bands — The cruel obligations of usury and oppression....