It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.
“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, an
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disob
Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the da
to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.