Isa 58:5, Dan 9:3 | ESV | STEP | Is such the fast that I choose , a day for a person to humble himself ? Is it to bow down his head like a reed , and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast , and a day acceptable to the Lord ?

Isaiah 58:5

5 ^aIs such the fast that I choose,
^ba day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Daniel 9:3

3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by ^cprayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.