adSee Neh. 5:10-12
Leviticus 23:27
27“Now aon the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves ▼▼Or shall fast; also verse 32
and present a food offering to the Lord. Psalms 35:13
13But I, cwhen they were sick—I dwore sackcloth;
I eafflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed fwith head bowed ▼
▼Or my prayer shall turn back
on my chest.Psalms 51:17
17The sacrifices of God are ha broken spirit;a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalms 69:10-11
10When I wept and humbled ▼▼Hebrew lacks and humbled
my soul with fasting,it became my reproach.
11When I made jsackcloth my clothing,
I became ka byword to them.
Psalms 126:5-6
5 lThose who sow in tearsshall reap with shouts of joy!
6He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.
Isaiah 57:15
15For thus says mthe One who is high and lifted up,who inhabits eternity, whose name is nHoly:
o“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also pwith him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
qto revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:18-19
18I have seen his ways, rbut I will heal him;I will lead him sand restore comfort to him and his mourners,
19 tcreating uthe fruit of the lips.
vPeace, peace, wto the far and to the near,” says the Lord,
x“and I will heal him.
Isaiah 58:3-7
3 y‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, ▼
▼Or pursue your own business
aaand oppress all your workers.
4Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
5 abIs such the fast that I choose,
aca 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?
6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
adto loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps aeof the yoke,
to let the oppressed ▼
▼Or bruised
go free,and to break every yoke?
7Is it not agto share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
ahand not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
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