Isaiah 58:6

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 58:1-14

The Dangers of Fasting (Ash Wednesday) Isaiah 58:1 There are two classes of people to whom Lent brings no blessing those who do not keep it at all, and those who, while they observe it with outward formalities and even with strictness, yet do not keep it in the spirit of true penitence. I. What a strange picture is here drawn! a nation seemingly most religious, not only fulfilling the ordinances of religion, but delighting in them, and yet absolutely without spiritual life. This character is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 58:1-14

CHAPTER XXIIITHE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCEIsaiah 56:9-12; Isaiah 57:1-21; Isaiah 58:1-14; Isaiah 59:1-21IT was inevitable, as soon as their city was again fairly in sight, that there should re-awaken in the exiles the civic conscience; that recollections of those besetting sins of their public life, for which their city and their independence were destroyed, should throng back upon them; that in prospect of their again becoming responsible for the discharge of justice and other... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 58:1-14

3. Jewish History in the End time: their Future Glory and the Glory of the Coming Age (58-59) This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be understood and appreciated if it is studied in the light of other prophecies which predict the final events with which the times of the Gentiles close. That period consists of 7 years, the last 3 1/2 being the great tribulation. According to these predictions a part of the Jewish nation will be back in their land. These returned Jews will... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 58:6

58:6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every {f} yoke?(f) That you leave off all your extortions. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 58:1-14

MEETING OF THE AGES We are drawing to the end of the present, and the opening of the Millennial age. The prophet’s eye rests on the time when Israel is back in her land, the majority still unconverted to Christ and worshiping in a restored temple. There is a faithful remnant waiting for Him, though enduring the persecution of the false christ. This persecution may often be felt at the hands of their own brethren after the flesh. These facts must be assumed in the interpretation of these... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 58:2-7

Observe how possible it is to have a fondness for ordinances, but to be void of a spirit of grace in them. Outward observances are easily followed; but heart-renewing, heart-felt sorrow for sin, consists in somewhat more than these. A squalid face and sable garments, yea, abstinence from ordinary food, are no real marks of true fasting. How divinely hath the Lord Jesus dwelt upon this subject, Matthew 6:16-18 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 58:6

Bands. Contracts of usury, &c. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 58:3-12

3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or occasioned fasts. But they indulged pride, covetousness, and malignant passions. To be liberal and merciful is more acceptable to God than mere fasting, which, without them, is vain and hypocritical. Many who seem humble in God's house, are hard at home, and harass their families. But no man's faith... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 58:1-7

A Sharp Reproof of Hypocrisy v. 1. Cry aloud, so the Lord calls out to the prophet in bidding him rebuke the hypocritical conduct of the people, spare not, in an indulgence which in this case would amount to a sinful weakness, for which reason a crying at the top of the voice is demanded, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, with the far-sounding signal of the trumpets used on the great festivals of the Jewish Church, and show My people their transgression, the breach of covenant of which they... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 58:1-14

c.—The new creatureIsaiah 58-66At the close of the second Ennead, the gaze of the Prophet had returned from the heights of prophecy to the practical necessities of his own time. In the third Ennead he renewedly mounts aloft to the heights of prophetic vision. Chapters 58, 59. form, as it were, the ladder on which he ascends. He shows in them how the people must, by a sincere repentance, raise themselves out of the region of the flesh into the region of the spirit. After this introductory... read more

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