 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 588 pagina’s
...act of equity and mercy, but especially giving of alms ; and introduces God himself, saying : Is not this the fast, that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burthens, to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread... | |
 | 1825 - 664 pagina’s
...Iviii. 5.—"/* it such a path that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? Wilt thou tlten call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord." The duty itself is first considered and... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pagina’s
...xvi. !> j. Is it such a fast that 1 have chosen 1 a day for a man to afflict his soul 1 is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt tliou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD 1 Isa. Iviii. 5. Speak unto all the people... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 398 pagina’s
...purpose ? " Is it such a fast that I have chosen — a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ?" Isa. Iviii. 5. ; to discontinue your ordinary business, and refrain from a meal's meat? to make... | |
 | John Wesley - 1825 - 742 pagina’s
...such a fast that I have chosen, saith the Lord; a day for a man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? " Arc these outward acts, however strictly performed, all that is meant by a man's "afflicting his... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pagina’s
...his soul ? is it to bow down hie head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes u »der him I wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD! Isa. hiii. 3—5. And to speak unto the priests which aere in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 554 pagina’s
...have attempted it by voluntary mortifications and abstinence. But the fast which God hath chosen, is to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed go free^. Some by acts of devotion : but he tJiat turn' eth away his ear from hearing... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pagina’s
...chosen ? * * a day for a man to afflict his soul 1 is it to bow down his head as a bul" *»• rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD ? 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo f the heavy... | |
 | Thomas Wetherald - 1826 - 360 pagina’s
...No. This is the fast that the Lord hath chosen — " To lo«se the bands of wickedness, to undo 31 the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke — to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house —... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pagina’s
...Iviii. 5 : Is it such a fast that 1 have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD ? JOEL, ii. 12, 13 : Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and... | |
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Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD ? Is not this the fast that... 
