Isaiah 58:3
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Isaiah 58:3
Isaiah 58:3. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
When God rejects a man’s religion, what must be the reason of it? Here is the explanation.
Isaiah 58:3. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
"You fast, but you make your workmen toil on still; you determine that they shall not have one atom of their labour abated; and you make an amusement of what you call a fast: ‘In the day of your fast ye find pleasure.’"