Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Strife. The usual works were interrupted. The Church formerly forbade law-suits on fast-days.
Fist. Matthew xviii. 28.
Wickedly. Septuagint, "the humble."
