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What Does The Book Of Isaiah Say About Fasting. The bible mentions different types of fasting. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah 58:3 wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? God says, you shall do no work on the day of atonement. it is a. Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them… a day for a man to afflict his soul.
Isaiah 59:2 but your iniquities have built barriers between you and your god, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he does not hear.
Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. Isaiah 3:15 why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? declares the lord god of hosts. So we see that in isaiah’s time the people were not fasting to learn and do the will of god or to repent and obey god, they were fasting as a means of forcing their will upon god.