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Ezra 8.21:

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might deny ourselves^* before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Ezra 9.5:

At the evening sacrifice I got up from my fasting, with my garments and my mantle torn, and fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the Lord my God,

Nehemiah 1.4:

When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 9.1:

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.^*

Esther 4.3:

In every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Psalm 35.13:

But as for me, when they were sick,
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed^* on my bosom,

Psalm 69.10:

When I humbled my soul with fasting,^*
they insulted me for doing so.

Psalm 109.24:

My knees are weak through fasting;
my body has become gaunt.

Isaiah 58.4:

Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to strike with a wicked fist.
Such fasting as you do today
will not make your voice heard on high.

Daniel 6.18:

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no food was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Daniel 9.3:

Then I turned to the Lord God, to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Joel 2.12:

Yet even now, says the Lord,
return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Zechariah 7.1:

In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.

Zechariah 8.18:

The word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:

Tobit 12.8:

Prayer with fasting^* is good, but better than both is almsgiving with righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than wealth with wrongdoing.^* It is better to give alms than to lay up gold.

Judith 4.9:

And every man of Israel cried out to God with great fervour, and they humbled themselves with much fasting.

2 Maccabees 13.12:

When they had all joined in the same petition and had implored the merciful Lord with weeping and fasting and lying prostrate for three days without ceasing, Judas exhorted them and ordered them to stand ready.

Matthew 6.16:

‘And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6.18:

so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.^*

Matthew 9.14:

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast often,^* but your disciples do not fast?’