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.
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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.
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Leviticus 16:31
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Daniel 10:2
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant food. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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2 Samuel 1:12
They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Luke 19:41
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
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1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.
Esther 4:1
Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.
Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
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.
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Psalms 35:11
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
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Psalms 109:4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
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