Psalms 69:10
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
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Psalms 69:11
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
Psalms 109:25
I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
Psalms 35:15
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Luke 7:33
For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
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Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Leviticus 16:29
“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
Leviticus 16:31
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
Leviticus 23:27
“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Isaiah 58:5
Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
Daniel 10:12
Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.
Zechariah 7:5
“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
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Nehemiah 1:4
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
Matthew 9:15
Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.
Esther 4:16
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Acts 14:23
When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
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Psalms 31:11
Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
Psalms 31:12
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
Psalms 102:8
My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
Romans 15:3
For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
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Psalms 115:2
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”
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