Isaiah 58:6

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 58:1-14

the Fast That God Has Chosen Isaiah 58:1-14 The divorce between outward rites and inward piety has been the curse of every age. When the Pharisees were plotting our Lord’s death, they refused to enter Pilate’s hall. Not the bowed head, but the broken heart; not the sackcloth and ashes of the flesh, but the contrition of the soul! Notice the three paragraphs descriptive of the experiences of the devout and consecrated soul: (1.) The conditions of blessedness , Isaiah 58:6-7 . (2.) The... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 58:1-14

We now commence the last division of the book, which deals with the program of peace as it sets forth the conditions, describes the ultimate realization, and insists on a principle of discrimination. In dealing with conditions the prophet first declares the moral requirements. This message consists of a condemnation of formalism and a description of true religion. Jehovah's charge against the people is that they have observed the external ordinances of religion, and yet have complained that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 58:6-14

The Call To Covenant Righteousness (Isaiah 58:6-14 ). Isaiah 58:6-7 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen, To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, And that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? When you see the naked that you cover him, And that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh?” This is rather God’s approved way of fasting. Helping... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 58:1-14

Isaiah 58:1-2 Chronicles : . Fasting, False and True.— Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know His will for all the world as though their one aim were to do it! They question the priests as to correct ritual—“ righteous ordinances”— and delight in daily worship. “ Why,” they ask, “ when we fast does Yahweh take no notice of our pleas?” Because on their fast-days they pursue their business— so render rather than “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? or, approve, as before, Isaiah 58:5; or, Ought not such a fast to be accompanied with such things as these? where he is now about to show the concomitants of a true fast, with reference to the thing in hand, namely, to exercise works of charity, consisting partly in acts of self-denial, in this verse, and partly in doing good to those in distress, in the next. In this verse he instanceth in some particulars, and closeth with a general. The bands of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 58:6-7

A PLEA FOR THE DISTRESSEDIsaiah 58:6-7. Is not this the fast that I have chosen? &c.In the former verses of this chapter we have a description of the state of heart of the Jewish people in the course of their mysterious preparation for destruction.… They are in a condition of all others the most appalling—the condition of the self-deceived (Isaiah 58:2, &c.). The Lord therefore defines in His own vindication what is the sort of humiliation which alone He will accept and honour. There is... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 58:3-7

Isaiah 58:3-7 I. The Hebrew prophet's deliverance here is not in condemnation or disparagement of all fasting. The people of his day were in the habit, it appears, of denying themselves food, and assuming postures of mourning and humiliation as an offering to the Almighty, and an appeal to Him for His recognition and regard, while they were living, and persisted in living, unrighteously and unlovingly. Ever and anon, they would set apart a time in which to make themselves generally... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 58:6-7

Isaiah 58:6-7 This passage is one of those in which the purity and holiness peculiar to the Gospel seem to be foretokened in the morality of the prophetic canon. Isaiah has been termed the Evangelical Prophet; and he is so, not more in the transcendent clearness of his predictions of evangelic facts, than in the corresponding brightness of his anticipations of evangelic holiness. As the inspired writers approached the great centre of purity, they became more and more deeply tinged with the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 58:5-11

DISCOURSE: 993THE SERVICES WHICH GOD REQUIRESIsaiah 58:5-11. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burthens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 58:1-14

Chapter 58Cry aloud, spare not ( Isaiah 58:1 ),The Lord is commanding now the prophet Isaiah.lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily ( Isaiah 58:1-2 ),Now there was a real inconsistency here, because the attendance at the temple worship had not diminished at all. People were still going through outward forms of religion. There was a popular religious movement on the surface, but the heart of the people... read more

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