Isaiah 58:3 Cross References

Isaiah 58:3

3: `We have fasted before you!' they say. `Why aren't you impressed? We have done much penance, and you don't even notice it!'"I will tell you why! It's because you are living for yourselves even while you are fasting. You keep right on oppressing your workers.

Malachi 3:14

  1. "You have said, `What's the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying his commands or by trying to show the LORD Almighty that we are sorry for our sins?

Psalms 69:10

  1. When I weep and fast before the LORD, they scoff at me.

Zechariah 7:5

  1. "Say to all your people and your priests, `During those seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and at the festival in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting?
  2. And even now in your holy festivals, you don't think about me but only of pleasing yourselves.
  3. Isn't this the same message the LORD proclaimed through the prophets years ago when Jerusalem and the towns of Judah were bustling with people, and the Negev and the foothills of Judah were populated areas?'"

Leviticus 16:29

  1. "On the appointed day in early autumn, you must spend the day fasting and not do any work. This is a permanent law for you, and it applies to those who are Israelites by birth, as well as to the foreigners living among you.

Luke 18:9

  1. Then Jesus told this story to some who had great self-confidence and scorned everyone else:
  2. "Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a dishonest tax collector.
  3. The proud Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: 'I thank you, God, that I am not a sinner like everyone else, especially like that tax collector over there! For I never cheat, I don't sin, I don't commit adultery,
  4. I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.'

Nehemiah 5:7

  1. After thinking about the situation, I spoke out against these nobles and officials. I told them, "You are oppressing your own relatives by charging them interest when they borrow money!" Then I called a public meeting to deal with the problem.

Jonah 3:6

  1. When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in sackcloth and sat on a heap of ashes.
  2. Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: "No one, not even the animals, may eat or drink anything at all.
  3. Everyone is required to wear sackcloth and pray earnestly to God. Everyone must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence.

Proverbs 28:9

  1. The prayers of a person who ignores the law are despised.

Isaiah 47:6

  1. For I was angry with my chosen people and began their punishment by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You have forced even the elderly to carry heavy burdens.

Jeremiah 34:9

  1. He had ordered all the people to free their Hebrew slaves--both men and women. No one was to keep a fellow Judean in bondage.
  2. The officials and all the people had obeyed the king's command,
  3. but later they changed their minds. They took back the people they had freed, making them slaves again.
  4. So the LORD gave them this message through Jeremiah:
  5. "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors long ago when I rescued them from their slavery in Egypt.

Leviticus 16:31

  1. It will be a Sabbath day of total rest, and you will spend the day in fasting. This is a permanent law for you.

Luke 15:29

  1. but he replied, 'All these years I've worked hard for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends.

Micah 3:9

  1. Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
  2. You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
  3. You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."

Daniel 10:2

  1. When this vision came to me, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three weeks.
  2. All that time I had eaten no rich food or meat, had drunk no wine, and had used no fragrant oils.

Exodus 2:23

  1. Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites still groaned beneath their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their pleas for deliverance rose up to God.
  2. God heard their cries and remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Numbers 23:4

  1. and God met him there. Balaam said to him, "I have prepared seven altars and have sacrificed a young bull and a ram on each altar."

Matthew 20:11

  1. When they received their pay, they protested,
  2. 'Those people worked only one hour, and yet you've paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.'

Isaiah 22:13

  1. But instead, you dance and play; you slaughter sacrificial animals, feast on meat, and drink wine. "Let's eat, drink, and be merry," you say. "What's the difference, for tomorrow we die."

Matthew 18:28

  1. "But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars. He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment.
  2. His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. 'Be patient and I will pay it,' he pleaded.
  3. But his creditor wouldn't wait. He had the man arrested and jailed until the debt could be paid in full.
  4. "When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him what had happened.
  5. Then the king called in the man he had forgiven and said, 'You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me.

Leviticus 23:27

  1. "Remember that the Day of Atonement is to be celebrated on the ninth day after the Festival of Trumpets. On that day you must humble yourselves, gather for a sacred assembly, and present offerings to the LORD by fire.
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