Mazmur 55:10

55:10 Day and night they walk around on its walls, ¹ 

while wickedness and destruction ²  are within it.

Yesaya 58:4

58:4 Look, your fasting is accompanied by ³  arguments, brawls,

and fistfights. ⁴ 

Do not fast as you do today,

trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

[55:10]  ¹ tn Heb “day and night they surround it, upon its walls.” Personified “violence and conflict” are the likely subjects. They are compared to watchmen on the city’s walls.

[55:10]  ² sn Wickedness and destruction. These terms are also closely associated in Ps 7:14.

[58:4]  ³ tn Heb “you fast for” (so NASB); NRSV “you fast only to quarrel.”

[58:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and for striking with a sinful fist.”