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Why Have We Fasted?
Isaiah: Israel seeks me daily and delight to know my ways, but they forsook not the ordinance of their God. Fasting is what he's going to start talking about, and fasting could be part of the solution if they did it right. But in this one, when he talks about you fasted and God isn't seen, you afflicted your soul, and God doesn't take knowledge. So in their mind, just little, this subtle dig, is that how you describe fasting? Afflicting your soul? Is that all it is to you?