5
"Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these
aseventy years, was it actually for
bMe that you fasted?
b
Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 1:12, Isaiah 58:5
Isaiah 1
11
"aWhat are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?" Says the Lord. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.
Isaiah 1
12
"When you come ato appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?
Isaiah 58
5
"Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed And for spreading out asackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an bacceptable day to the Lord?
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