Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.
Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
“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
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust o
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, an
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the ho
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become