Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 58:2

"Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near unto God." — Isaiah 58:2 (ASV)

Yet they seek me daily ... —The “seeking” is that of those who come, like the elders in Ezekiel 20:1, to “inquire” of Jehovah, and looking for an oracle from him. The words point to the incongruous union, possible in the reign of Manasseh, but hardly possible after the exile, of this formal recognition of Jehovah with an apostate life. Every phrase rings in the tone of an incisive irony, describing each element of a true devotion which the people did not possess.