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◄ Isaiah 58:4►
New International Version
Your fasting ends in quarreling 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.

New Living Translation
What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me.

English Standard Version
Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.

Berean Standard Bible
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

King James Bible
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast asye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

New King James Version
Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast asyou do this day, To make your voice heard on high.

New American Standard Bible
“Behold, you fast for contention and strife, and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast likeyou have done today to make your voice heard on high!

NASB 1995
“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.

NASB 1977
“Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast likeyou do today to make your voice heard on high.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, you fast for contention and quarreling and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast likeyou do today to make your voice heard on high.

Amplified Bible
“The facts are that you fastonly for strife and brawling and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You do not fast asyou do today to make your voice heard on high.

Christian Standard Bible
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.

American Standard Version
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

Contemporary English Version
You even get angry and ready to fight. No wonder God won't listen to your prayers!

English Revised Version
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't you see that when you fast, you quarrel and fight and beat your workers? The way you fast today keeps you from being heard in heaven.

Good News Translation
Your fasting makes you violent, and you quarrel and fight. Do you think this kind of fasting will make me listen to your prayers?

International Standard Version
"Look! You fast only for quarreling, and for fighting, and for hitting with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice heard on high.

NET Bible
Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

New Heart English Bible
Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Majority Text Translations
Majority Standard Bible
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

World English Bible
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Behold, you fast for strife and debate, "" And to strike with the fist of wickedness, "" You do not fast as [this] day, "" To sound your voice in the high place.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as to -day, To sound in the high place your voice.

Smith's Literal Translation
Behold, for contention and strife ye will fast, and to strike with the fist of injustice: ye shall not fast as today to cause your voice to be heard on high.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold you fast for debates and strife. and strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Behold, you fast with strife and contention, and you strike with the fist impiously. Do not choose to fast as you have done even to this day. Then your outcry will be heard on high.

New American Bible
See, you fast only to quarrel and fight and to strike with a wicked fist! Do not fast as you do today to make your voice heard on high!

New Revised Standard Version
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.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Behold, you fast for strife and quarreling, and to strike violently with the fist of wickedness; you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Behold, for strife and for contention you are fasting and to strike in the force of evil. You shall not fast like today and make your voice heard in high places
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, And to smite with the fist of wickedness; Ye fast not this day So as to make your voice to be heard on high.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
If ye fast for quarrels and strifes, and smite the lowly withyour fists, wherefore do ye fast to me asye do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
True Fasts and Sabbaths
…3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.4You fastwith contentionand strifeto strikeviciouslywith your fist.You cannotfastas you do todayand have your voicebe heardon high.5Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?…

Cross References
Matthew 6:16-18
When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. / But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, / so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

James 4:3
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Luke 18:9-14
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: / “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. / The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. ...

1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Zechariah 7:5-6
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? / And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

Amos 5:21-24
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. / Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. ...

Jeremiah 14:12
Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”

Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Mark 7:6-7
Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’

Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.


Treasury of Scripture

Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

ye fast

1 Kings 21:9-13
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: …

Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wickedis abomination: how much more,when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

Matthew 6:16
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

and to smite

Acts 23:1,2
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Menand brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day…

Philippians 1:14,15
And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear…

shall not fast as ye do this day.

Joel 2:13,14
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for heis gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil…

Jonah 3:7
And he causedit to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

Matthew 6:16-18
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward…

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Isaiah 58
1.The prophet, being sent to reprove hypocrisy,
3.shows the difference between a counterfeit fast and a true
8.He declares what promises are due unto godliness
13.And to the keeping of the Sabbath














You fast with contention and strife
This phrase highlights the improper motives behind the fasting of the Israelites. Fasting, a practice meant for humility and seeking God, had become a source of conflict and division. In biblical context, fasting was often associated with repentance and seeking divine intervention (Joel 2:12-13). However, the Israelites were using it as a means to assert superiority or to engage in disputes, contrary to the intended purpose. This reflects a broader theme in Scripture where God desires mercy and justice over ritualistic observance (Hosea 6:6).

to strike viciously with your fist
The imagery of striking with a fist suggests aggression and violence, which is antithetical to the spirit of fasting. This behavior indicates a heart condition that is far from God’s desires. In the cultural context of ancient Israel, physical violence was a serious breach of the covenant community's ethics. The prophets often condemned such behavior as evidence of a society that had turned away from God (Micah 6:8). This phrase underscores the hypocrisy of engaging in religious practices while harboring malice and aggression.

You cannot fast as you do today
This statement serves as a rebuke and a call to self-examination. The Israelites' current manner of fasting was ineffective and unacceptable to God. It suggests that their religious practices were superficial and lacked genuine repentance or transformation. The historical context shows that during times of crisis, such as impending invasion or famine, fasting was a common response. However, without a change of heart, these actions were meaningless (Isaiah 1:11-17).

and have your voice be heard on high
The phrase implies that God does not respond to insincere worship. The "voice" here represents prayers and petitions that accompany fasting. In biblical theology, God hears the cries of the righteous (Psalm 34:15), but He is distant from those who practice iniquity (Isaiah 59:2). This serves as a reminder that God values the condition of the heart over external rituals. The connection to other scriptures, such asMatthew 6:16-18, emphasizes the importance of sincerity and humility in fasting, aligning with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Persons / Places / Events
1.Isaiah
A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book that bears his name. He prophesied to the Kingdom of Judah during a time of moral and spiritual decline.

2.Judah
The southern kingdom of Israel, where Isaiah's ministry took place. The people of Judah are the primary audience of Isaiah's prophecies.

3.Fasting
A religious practice involving abstaining from food and drink, intended as a means of humbling oneself before God. In this context, it is being misused by the people of Judah.

4.Quarreling and Strife
The behaviors that Isaiah condemns, indicating that the people's fasting is not leading to righteousness but rather to conflict and violence.

5.Wicked Fists
A metaphor for physical violence and aggression, highlighting the hypocrisy of the people's religious practices.
Teaching Points
True Fasting and Worship
Fasting should be an act of genuine humility and devotion to God, not a ritualistic practice devoid of true spiritual intent.

The Danger of Hypocrisy
Engaging in religious practices while harboring sin and conflict in our hearts is hypocritical and displeasing to God.

The Importance of Right Motives
Our religious activities should stem from a desire to honor God and serve others, not from selfish ambition or to gain favor.

The Call to Righteous Living
True worship involves living righteously and justly, seeking peace and reconciliation rather than conflict and strife.

Hearing from God
To have our voices heard on high, we must align our actions with God's will, seeking His guidance and correction in our lives.
Bible Study Questions and Answers
1.What is the meaning of Isaiah 58:4?

2.How does Isaiah 58:4 challenge our understanding of true fasting and worship?

3.What actions in Isaiah 58:4 reveal the people's misunderstanding of fasting's purpose?

4.How can we avoid the pitfalls of insincere worship described in Isaiah 58:4?

5.Connect Isaiah 58:4 with James 1:26 on controlling one's tongue during worship.

6.How can Isaiah 58:4 guide us in aligning our actions with God's will?

7.How does Isaiah 58:4 challenge the sincerity of religious fasting practices?

8.What historical context influenced the message of Isaiah 58:4?

9.How does Isaiah 58:4 address the disconnect between worship and ethical behavior?

10.What are the top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 58?

11.What is the Bible's perspective on world peace?

12.What does 'chasing the wind' mean?

13.What does secretive action between hands signify?

14.What is the Bible's perspective on being woke?
What Does Isaiah 58:4 Mean
You fast with contention and strife

“For you fast with contention and strife…” (Isaiah 58:4)

• The people were practicing an outward discipline while harboring inner hostility. Fasting had become a stage for arguments, not an act of humility (cf.Isaiah 1:11–15;James 4:1).

• Scripture consistently links acceptable worship to a right heart: “To obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Samuel 15:22); “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear” (Psalm 66:18).

• Genuine fasting subdues self and seeks God’s face; a combative spirit exposes self-interest.

To strike viciously with your fist

“…to strike viciously with your fist.” (Isaiah 58:4)

• The verse pictures fasting that actually fuels violence—an irony Isaiah highlights. Religious exercise was supposed to restrain the flesh (Galatians 5:13–15), yet it was empowering aggression.

• This echoes the oppression condemned in the surrounding verses: unjust labor (Isaiah 58:3), yokes and chains (Isaiah 58:6), pointing fingers (Isaiah 58:9).

• God measures devotion not by the rigor of a ritual but by the righteousness it produces (Micah 6:8;Matthew 23:23).

You cannot fast as you do today

“You cannot fast as you do today…” (Isaiah 58:4)

• The Lord flatly rejects the current pattern. Merely repeating religious motions does not obligate God to respond (Matthew 6:7).

• Throughout Scripture, God calls His people to repent of form without substance (Amos 5:21–24;Zechariah 7:5–6).

• A true fast aligns the heart with God’s purposes—loosing bonds, sharing bread, sheltering the poor (Isaiah 58:6–7).

And have your voice be heard on high

“…and expect your voice to be heard on high.” (Isaiah 58:4)

• Heaven is not indifferent, but it is holy. Petition gains an audience when offered with clean hands and sincere faith (Psalm 24:3–4;1 Timothy 2:8).

• Jesus echoed this: “When you fast… your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you” (Matthew 6:16–18). He links reward to authenticity, not publicity or coercion.

• Therefore, unanswered prayer may expose a deeper issue: unresolved sin or broken relationships (Isaiah 59:2;1 Peter 3:7).

summary

Isaiah 58:4 teaches that fasting detached from love, justice, and humility offends God rather than pleases Him. When spiritual practices coexist with strife and oppression, heaven closes its ear. Only a heart turned from self-interest to God’s righteousness can expect to be heard on high.

(4)Behold, ye fast for strife and debate.--The words possibly point to the psychological fact that an unspiritual fasting irritates the nerves and embitters the temper. Extremes meet, and the disputes of fasting controversialists are often as fierce as those of drunken disputants. (Comp. the conspiracy ofActs 23:21.)

Verse 4. -Ye fast for strife and debate. Delitzsch explains, "When fasting, they are doubly irritable and ill tempered; and this leads to quarrelling and strife, even to striking with angry fists." This is quite a possible explanation. Or there may have been two parties, one for, the other against, fasting; and those who practised fasting may have done it, as some preached Christ, "of envy and strife" (Philippians 1:15) - to provoke the opposite side.Ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high;i.e. "ye must not fast as ye do at present, if ye would have your voices heard in heaven." God will not hear the prayer of which such a fast is the accompaniment.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You fast
תָּצ֔וּמוּ(tā·ṣū·mū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 6684:To abstain from food, fast

with contention
לְרִ֤יב(lə·rîḇ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7379:Strife, dispute

and strife
וּמַצָּה֙(ū·maṣ·ṣāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4683:Strife, contention

to strike
וּלְהַכּ֖וֹת(ū·lə·hak·kō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5221:To strike

viciously
רֶ֑שַׁע(re·ša‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7562:Wickedness

with your fist.
בְּאֶגְרֹ֣ף(bə·’eḡ·rōp̄)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 106:The clenched hand

You cannot
לֹא־(lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808:Not, no

fast
תָצ֣וּמוּ(ṯā·ṣū·mū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 6684:To abstain from food, fast

as you do today
כַיּ֔וֹם(ḵay·yō·wm)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117:A day

and have your voice
קוֹלְכֶֽם׃(qō·wl·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 6963:A voice, sound

be heard
לְהַשְׁמִ֥יעַ(lə·haš·mî·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8085:To hear intelligently

on high.
בַּמָּר֖וֹם(bam·mā·rō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4791:Altitude


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