Isaiah 58:4 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Isaiah 58:4 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Isaiah 58:4 in 6 Bible Translations
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Isaiah 58:4 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.”
Isaiah 58:4 — World English Bible
Isaiah 58:4 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. ”
Isaiah 58:4 — American Standard Version
Isaiah 58:4 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as <FI>to<Fi> -day, To sound in the high place your voice.”
Isaiah 58:4 — Young's Literal Translation
Isaiah 58:4 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to cause your voice to be heard on high. ”
Isaiah 58:4 — Darby Translation
Isaiah 58:4 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Beholde, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickednesse: ye shall not fast as ye doe to day, to make your voyce to be heard aboue.”
Isaiah 58:4 — Geneva Bible
Isaiah 58:4 in Context — Isaiah 58
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 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 labours.
4 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.
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 and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
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?
What Does Isaiah 58:4 Mean?
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