Isaiah 58:4

New International Version

⁴Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,^(A)
and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
and expect your voice to be heard^(B) on high.

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Isaiah 58:4 in all English translations

Daniel 9:1-3

New International Version

Daniel’s Prayer

9 In the first year of Darius^(A) son of Xerxes^[a]^(B) (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian^[b] kingdom— ²in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy^(C) years. ³So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting,^(D) and in sackcloth and ashes.^(E)

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Footnotes

Daniel 9:1 Hebrew Ahasuerus
Daniel 9:1 Or Chaldean

Joel 2:12-13

New International Version

Rend Your Heart

¹²“Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return^(A) to me with all your heart,^(B)
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

¹³Rend your heart^(C)
    and not your garments.^(D)
Return^(E) to the Lord your God,
    for he is gracious and compassionate,^(F)
slow to anger and abounding in love,^(G)
    and he relents from sending calamity.^(H)