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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....
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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,...
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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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_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...
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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....
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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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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,...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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הֵ֣ן לְ רִ֤יב וּ מַצָּה֙ תָּצ֔וּמוּ וּ
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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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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...
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_Strife. The usual works were interrupted. The Church formerly forbade
law-suits on fast-days. --- Fist. Matthew xviii. 28. --- Wickedly.
Septuagint, "the humble."_...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
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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...
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YE SHALL NOT FAST AS YE DO THIS DAY:
Or, ye fast not as this day...
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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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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...
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Isaiah 58:4 fast H6684 (H8799) strife H7379 debate H4683 strike H5221
(H8687) fist H106 wickedness H7562 fast...
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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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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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_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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_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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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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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...
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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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1 Kings 21:9; Acts 23:1; Acts 23:2; Joel 2:13; Joel 2:14;...
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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...