Psa 69:10-11, Isa 22:12, Joe 1:13, 2:12, Jon 3:6-9, Luk 2:37 | ESV | STEP | When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting , it became my reproach .

10 When I wept and humbled ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks and humbled} my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11 When I made ^bsackcloth my clothing,
I became ^ca byword to them.

Isaiah 22:12

12 In that day ^dthe Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for ^ebaldness and ^fwearing sackcloth;

Joel 1:13

A Call to Repentance

13 ^gPut on sackcloth and lament, ^hO priests;
ⁱwail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, ^jpass the night in sackcloth,
^kO ministers of my God!
^lBecause grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 2:12

Return to the Lord

12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
^m“return to me with all your heart,
ⁿwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Jonah 3:6-9

The People of Nineveh Repent

6 The word reached ^{▼▼Or had reached} the king of Nineveh, and ^phe arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, ^qand sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, ^r“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor ^sbeast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and ^tbeast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. ^uLet everyone turn from his evil way and from ^vthe violence that is in his hands. 9 ^wWho knows? God may turn and relent ^xand turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

Luke 2:37

37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. ^{▼▼Or as a widow for eighty-four years} She did not depart from the temple, ^zworshiping with ^aafasting and prayer night and day.