“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before
This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” S
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackclot
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their
But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all th
But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and b
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even
“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, an
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.