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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 58:3 - 58:3
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Wherefore - the words of the Jews: “Why is it that, when we fast, Thou dost not notice it” (by delivering us)? They think to lay God under obligation to their fasting (Psa 73:13; Mal 3:14).
afflicted ... soul - (Lev 16:29).
Behold - God’s reply.
pleasure - in antithesis to their boast of having “afflicted their soul”; it was only in outward show they really enjoyed themselves. Gesenius not so well translates, “business.”
exact ... labours - rather, “oppressive labors” [Maurer]. Horsley, with Vulgate, translates, “Exact the whole upon your debtors”; those who owe you labor (Neh 5:1-5, Neh 5:8-10, etc.).