Isaiah 58:5-6
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5 Is it a fast like this that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it for bowing [a]one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out (A)sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an (B)acceptable day to the Lord?
6 Is this not the fast that I choose:
To (C)release the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the ropes of the yoke,
And to (D)let the oppressed go free,
And (E)break every yoke?
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- Isaiah 58:5 Lit his
Zechariah 7:4-6
New American Standard Bible
4 Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying, 5 “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months [a]these (A)seventy years, was it actually for (B)Me that you fasted? 6 And when you eat and drink, [b]do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
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- Zechariah 7:5 Lit and this
- Zechariah 7:6 Lit is it not you who eat and you who drink
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