Isaiah 58:3-4

True and False Fasting

³ _f 'Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?'
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, _1
g and oppress all your workers.
⁴ Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.

1. Cross References
   Malachi 3:14
   You have said, 'It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
   
2. Cross References
   Isaiah 60:17
   Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.
   Nehemiah 5:1 - 8
   Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.