On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do
We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-mind
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will lo
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a saf
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the da
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
yet now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the
Again the LORD said to Moses,
No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualifie
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth m