Isaiah 58:13-14

True and False Fasting

¹³ _w "If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure ₁ on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
or seeking _x your own pleasure, ₂ or talking idly; ₃
¹⁴ then you shall take delight in the Lord,
_y and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; _4
z I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
_a for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."

1. Cross References
   Isaiah 56:2
   Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
   Nehemiah 13:15 - 21
   In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.
   
2. Cross References
   Isaiah 58:3
   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, and oppress all your workers.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 32:13
   He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
   
4. Cross References
   Jeremiah 50:19
   I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
   
5. Cross References
   Isaiah 1:20
   But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.