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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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E. WHOLENESS TO THE WISE WHO KEEP CONVENANT WITH THE LORD, CHAPTER 58
1. HEARKEN
TEXT: Isaiah 58:1-5
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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare
unto my people their trans...
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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...
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58:3 labours. (d-35) i.e. 'all labours due to you.'...
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2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the
external requirements of religion....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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לָ֤מָּה צַּ֨מְנוּ֙ וְ לֹ֣א רָאִ֔יתָ
עִנִּ֥ינוּ...
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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
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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...
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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....
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(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...
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_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.)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
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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...
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LABOURS:
Or, things wherewith ye grieve others: _Heb._ griefs...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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
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SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A
CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.).
EXPOSIT
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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...
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Daniel 10:2; Daniel 10:3; Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:24; Isaiah 47:6;...
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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...