OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 58:4

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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.

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Verse 4. Strife. The usual works were interrupted. The Church formerly forbade law-suits on fast-days.—Fist. Matthew 18:28.—Wickedly. Septuagint “the humble.”

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