1 Samuel 8:18

8:18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.” ¹ 

Yesaya 58:4

58:4 Look, your fasting is accompanied by ²  arguments, brawls,

and fistfights. ³ 

Do not fast as you do today,

trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

Yeremia 11:11

11:11 So I, the Lord, say this: ⁴  ‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.

¹ tc The LXX adds “because you have chosen for yourselves a king.”

² tn Heb “you fast for” (so NASB); NRSV “you fast only to quarrel.”

³ tn Heb “and for striking with a sinful fist.”

⁴ tn Heb “Therefore, thus, says the Lord.” The person has been shifted in the translation in accordance with the difference between Hebrew and English style.