Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
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Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
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Genesis 18:26
Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
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Genesis 18:28
What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
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Genesis 27:39
Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above.
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Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
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1 Samuel 31:13
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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.
2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.
2 Samuel 12:21
Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”
2 Samuel 22:16
Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
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.
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2 Samuel 12:20
Then David arose from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him and he ate.
2 Samuel 14:2
Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil; but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
Micah 6:15
You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
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1 Kings 21:12
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
2 Chronicles 20:3
Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Ezra 8:21
Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
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.”
Jeremiah 36:6
Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
Jeremiah 36:9
Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
Joel 1:14
Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.
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Job 19:20
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psalms 102:4
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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Psalms 22:7
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
Psalms 22:17
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
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Psalms 31:12
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
Psalms 88:4
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Romans 5:6
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
2 Corinthians 13:4
For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
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Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
Psalms 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalms 38:7
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 38:8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
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Psalms 58:8
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
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Psalms 102:8
My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
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Psalms 109:18
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
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Psalms 110:7
He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
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Proverbs 27:16
restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.
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Ecclesiastes 12:3
in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,
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Isaiah 38:15
What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
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Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew 4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
Matthew 9:14
Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
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.
Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
Acts 10:30
Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
Acts 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 13:3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
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 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
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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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Luke 7:34
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
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John 8:57
The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
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