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 2:2
2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,“I remember the devotion of cyour youth,
your love das a bride,
ehow you followed me in the wilderness,
fin a land not sown.
Jeremiah 19:3
3You shall say, g‘Hear the word of the Lord, hO kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that ithe ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.Ezekiel 20:4
4 jWill you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? kLet them know the abominations of their fathers,Ezekiel 23:45
45But righteous men lshall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”Matthew 23:37-39
Lament over Jerusalem
37 m“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that nkills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have ogathered pyour children together qas a hen gathers her brood runder her wings, and syou were not willing! 38See, tyour house is left to you desolate. 39For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, u‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”Acts 7:51-53
51 v“You stiff-necked people, wuncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. xAs your fathers did, so do you. 52 yWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of zthe Righteous One, aawhom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53you who received the law abas delivered by angels and acdid not keep it.”
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