Malachi 3:14
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14 “You have said, ‘It is futile(A) to serve(B) God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements(C) and going about like mourners(D) before the Lord Almighty?
Isaiah 58:3
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3 ‘Why have we fasted,’(A) they say,
‘and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled(B) ourselves,
and you have not noticed?’(C)
“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please(D)
and exploit all your workers.
Psalm 73:8-13
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8 They scoff, and speak with malice;(A)
with arrogance(B) they threaten oppression.(C)
9 Their mouths lay claim to heaven,
and their tongues take possession of the earth.
10 Therefore their people turn to them
and drink up waters in abundance.[a]
11 They say, “How would God know?
Does the Most High know anything?”
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
Job 35:3
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Footnotes
- Job 35:3 Or you
Zechariah 7:3-6
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3 by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn(A) and fast in the fifth(B) month, as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted(C) and mourned in the fifth and seventh(D) months for the past seventy years,(E) was it really for me that you fasted? 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?(F)
Zephaniah 1:12
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Joel 2:12
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Rend Your Heart
Job 34:9
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9 For he says, ‘There is no profit
in trying to please God.’(A)
James 4:9
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9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.(A)
Job 22:17
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17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
What can the Almighty do to us?’(A)
Job 21:14-15
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