 | William Parr Greswell - 1834 - 250 pagina’s
...sackcloth and ashes " under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an " acceptable day to the Lord ? /* not this the " fast that I have chosen ? to loose the...oppressed go free, and that ye break " every yoke ? /* it not to deal thy bread to the " hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are " cast out to... | |
 | Simon Clough - 1834 - 58 pagina’s
...by Moses had established. The passage to which the Abolitionists refer, reads as follows:—" fs not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands...oppressed go free; and that ye break every yoke." (Isaiah I. viii. 6.) It is not absolutely certain that the Prophet had any allusion whatever to slavery,... | |
 | Heman Humphrey - 1834 - 432 pagina’s
...to the present season of humiliation, fasting, and prayer. ' Is not this the fast, saith the Lord, that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness,...burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye brake every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor, that are... | |
 | Shipley Wells Willson - 1835 - 54 pagina’s
...the labors of those whom he employs to do his work for him. Hear God again in another place : Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands...the oppressed GO FREE, and that ye break every yoke ? Isa. Iviii. (i ; and eee also the whole of this chapter. The slaves of this land are OPPRESSED, in... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1835 - 158 pagina’s
...far as light and ability are afforded. "Is not this the fast which I have chosen," saith the Lord, "to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy...the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not, to deal thy bread to the hungr)', and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 574 pagina’s
...of the Lord is with them that fear him." J " He meeteth him that workethrighteousness."§ " Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands...the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy... | |
 | 1836 - 446 pagina’s
...the Lord is with them that fear him.'§ ' He meeteth him that worketli righteousness. '|| ' Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands...the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - 1836 - 194 pagina’s
...and show my people their transgression) and the house of Jacob, their sins. Isa. Iviii, 1. 11. Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands...the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Isa. Iviii, 6. 12. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836 - 552 pagina’s
...for a memorial before God," Acts x, 4. And this God himself expressly and largely declares : " Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? To loose the bands...the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy... | |
 | 1836 - 180 pagina’s
...wickedness." Isaiah plainly tells them what sort of fasting would be more acceptable to the Lord. " Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands...and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye BREAK EVERT YOKE ?" Some learned divines of our day tell us that this does not refer to the yoke of slavery,... | |
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast... 
