Cross references

Isaiah 58:5

Is this the fast I have chosen:

a day for a man to deny himself,

to bow his head like a reed,

and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?

Will you call this a fast

and a day acceptable to the LORD?

Isaiah 58:5 BSB

Isaiah 58:5 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Daniel 9:3–19 (9 votes) and Zechariah 7:5 (7 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 22 other books, from Leviticus 16 to 1 Peter 2.

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Which verses does Isaiah 58:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments, …

  2. “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

  3. This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

  4. “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

  5. to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

  6. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

  7. This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—

  8. Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

  9. But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

  10. Luke 4:194 votes

    to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

  11. Ezra 10:63 votes
  12. Esther 4:33 votes
  13. Job 2:83 votes
  14. “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

Which verses point to Isaiah 58:5?

The 10 strongest of 27.