Isaiah 58:4
ContextNETBible | Look, your fasting is accompanied by 1 arguments, brawls, and fistfights. 2 Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven. |
NIV © biblegateway Isa 58:4 |
Your fasting ends in quarrelling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. |
NASB © biblegateway Isa 58:4 |
"Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast like you do today to make your voice heard on high. |
NLT © biblegateway Isa 58:4 |
What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me. |
MSG © biblegateway Isa 58:4 |
You fast, but at the same time you bicker and fight. You fast, but you swing a mean fist. The kind of fasting you do won't get your prayers off the ground. |
BBE © SABDAweb Isa 58:4 |
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high. |
NRSV © bibleoremus Isa 58:4 |
Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high. |
NKJV © biblegateway Isa 58:4 |
Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high. |
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HEBREW |
NETBible | Look, your fasting is accompanied by 1 arguments, brawls, and fistfights. 2 Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven. |
NET Notes |
1 tn Heb “you fast for” (so NASB); NRSV “you fast only to quarrel.” 2 tn Heb “and for striking with a sinful fist.” |