OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 58:3

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‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

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Verse 3. Will. This alone suggested their fasts, and they did not shew compassion. Ezekiel 7:2. Calmet.—Debtors, who are not able to pay. Saint Jerome Deuteronomy 24:12.

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