What does Isaiah 58:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a dayc for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?"
IS IT SUCH A FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? - Is this such a mode of fasting as I have appointed and as I approve? A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL? - Margin, ‘To afflict his soul for a day.’ The reading...
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...
CHOSEN. See note on Isaiah 1:29. A MAN. Hebrew. _adam_. App-14. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13. BULRUSH. See note on Isaiah 9:14. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
SHOULD SUCH BE THE FAST THAT I CHOOSE? Can mere gestures and symbols of humiliation avail anything, along with such evidences of an unspiritual frame of mind? _to afflict his soul_ Both here and in I...
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...
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...
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 and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acc...
2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....
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...
A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL. — The phrase comes from Leviticus 16:29, and describes the soul-sorrow which was the true ideal of fasting. In contrast with this we have the picture, reminding us...
הֲ כָ זֶ֗ה יִֽהְיֶה֙ צֹ֣ום אֶבְחָרֵ֔הוּ יֹ֛ום עַנֹּ֥ות אָדָ֖ם נַפְשֹׁ֑ו הֲ לָ כֹ֨ף כְּ...
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as soon as their city was again fairly in sight, that there should re-awake...
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....
_Circle. They affected extreme debility, Matthew vi. 16. (Calmet) --- Ashes. These external marks of penance are not condemned, but the want of corresponding sentiments. (Haydock) --- Protestants woul...
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...
5._Is it such a fast as I have chosen? _He confirms the preceding statement, and shows that fasting is neither desired nor approved by God in itself, but so far as it is directed to its true end. He d...
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 hypo...
IS IT SUCH A FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN?.... That is, can this be thought to be a fast approved of by me, and acceptable to me, before described, and is as follows: A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL?...
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 and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an...
_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...
DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL?: Or, to afflict his soul for a 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...
THAT I HAVE CHOSEN; approve of, accept, or delight in, by a metonymy, because we delight in what we freely choose. A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL; or, to afflict his soul for a day. It is an _hyp...
Isaiah 58:5 fast H6685 chosen H977 (H8799) day H3117 man H120 afflict H6031 (H8763) soul H5315 down H3721 (H8800) head H7218 bulrush H100 out H3331 (H8686) sackcloth H8242 ashes H665 call H7121 (H8799...
“Is it such a fast that I have chosen? The day for a man to afflict his person? Is it to bow down his head as a rush? And to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast? And a...
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. 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 fou...
SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 58:1 FORMALISM REBUKED AND INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN WITH RESPECT TO F...
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 21:27; 1 Peter 2:5; 2 Chronicles 20:3; 2 Kings 6:30; Daniel 9:3; Esther 4:16; Esther 4:3; Ezra 10:6; Isaiah 49:8; Isaiah 58:3;...
Chosen — Approve of, accept, or delight in, by a metonymy, because we delight in what we freely chuse. For a day — This may be understood, either for a man to take a certain time to afflict his soul i...