Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these
This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and ap
to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or da
Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked arou
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust o
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifi
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the da
In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he sta
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sac