Isa 58:5, Lam 2:10, Dan 9:3, Jon 3:6 | 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?

Lamentations 2:10

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
^csit on the ground ^din silence;
^ethey have thrown dust on their heads
and ^fput on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.

Daniel 9:3

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

Jonah 3:6

The People of Nineveh Repent

6 The word reached ^{▼▼Or had reached} the king of Nineveh, and ⁱhe arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, ^jand sat in ashes.