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Isaiah 58

True Fasting

“Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins. For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them. ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. ...

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  1. but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.
  2. Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.
  3. If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him—
  4. It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
  5. and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
  6. But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
  7. But you are to hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have until now.
  8. But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.
  9. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.
  10. They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.
  11. He held fast to the Lord and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the Lord had given Moses.
  12. Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah.
  13. There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
  14. “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
  15. Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the king’s signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king.
  16. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
  17. But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction,
  18. They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
  19. When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;
  20. I hold fast to your statutes, Lord; do not let me be put to shame.
  21. even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
  22. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her; those who hold her fast will be blessed.
  23. The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
  24. Blessed is the one who does this— the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from doing any evil.”
  25. For this is what the Lord says: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant—
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16 topical index results for “fast”

ESTHER : Fasts on account of the decree to destroy the Israelites; Accuses Haman to the king; intercedes for her people (Esther 4;;;;;)
JOHN : Teaches his disciples to fast (Luke 5:33)
ELIJAH » The Tishbite, a Gileadite and prophet, called ELIA » Fasts for forty days (1 Kings 19:8)
EZRA » A famous scribe and priest » Appoints a fast (Ezra 8:21)
HUMILIATION AND SELF-AFFLICTION » ENJOINED » See FASTING
RULERS » RIGHTEOUS » King of Nineveh, in repenting, and proclaimimg a fast (Jonah 3:6-9)