Wherefore have we fasted - They had fasted much, evidently with the expectation of delivering themselves from impending calamities …

Wherefore have we fasted ... —The words remind us of those of a much later prophet (Malachi 3:14), but the co…

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day …

Why have we fasted? He proceeds further with the same subject and says that false and perverse worshippers of God are not only blinded by …

Why have we fasted, say they, and you do not see ? &c.] Our fasting; take no notice of it; expresses no approbation of it…

A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not expre true sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is not a fast. Thes…

1. Cry, do not cease. Here he excludes a usele remedy by which they wished to prepare themselves for salvation.

2. Firs…