Isaiah 58:1
True and False Fasting
1 “Cry aloud; do not hold back;alift up your voice like a trumpet;
bdeclare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 1:7-10
7But the Lord said to me,“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and cwhatever I command you, you shall speak.
8 dDo not be afraid of them,
efor I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.”
9 fThen the Lord put out his hand and gtouched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,
“Behold, I have put hmy words in your mouth.
10See, I have set you this day iover nations and over kingdoms,
jto pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”
Ezekiel 2:7
7And you shall speak my words to them, kwhether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.Ezekiel 3:5-9
5For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— 6not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. lSurely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. 7 mBut the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel nhave a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. 8 oBehold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9Like pemery harder than flint have I made your forehead. qFear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”Jonah 3:2
2“Arise, go to rNineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”Micah 3:8
8But as for me, sI am filled with power,with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob this transgression
and to Israel his sin.
Matthew 10:18
18 uand you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, vto bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
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