Isa 58:3, Joe 2:12, Zec 7:3-6, Jam 4:9 | ESV | STEP | Why have we fasted , and you see it not ? Why have we humbled ourselves , and you take no knowledge of it? Behold , in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure , and oppress all your workers .

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Isaiah 58:3

3 ^a‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, ^{▼▼Or pursue your own business}
^cand oppress all your workers.

Joel 2:12

Return to the Lord

12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
^d“return to me with all your heart,
^ewith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Zechariah 7:3-6

3 ^fsaying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and ^gthe prophets, “Should I weep and ^habstain in ⁱthe fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: 5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in ^jthe fifth month and in ^kthe seventh, for these ^lseventy years, ^mwas it ⁿfor me that you fasted? 6 ^oAnd when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

James 4:9

9 ^pBe wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.