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So the entire Israelite army went up to Bethel, where they wept and remained fasting before the LORD until evening of that day, besides offering holocausts and peace offerings before the LORD. (Judges 20, 26)
On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites gathered together fasting and in sackcloth, their heads covered with dust. (Nehemiah 9, 1)
Prayer and fasting are good, but better than either is almsgiving accompanied by righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than abundance with wickedness. It is better to give alms than to store up gold; (Tobit 12, 8)
(Likewise in each of the provinces, wherever the king's legal enactment reached, the Jews went into deep mourning, with fasting, weeping, and lament; they all slept on sackcloth and ashes.) (Esther 4, 3)
Thus were established, for their appointed time, these days of Purim which Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had designated for the Jews, just as they had previously enjoined upon themselves and upon their race the duty of fasting and supplication. (Esther 9, 31)
Yet I, when they were ill, put on sackcloth, afflicted myself with fasting, sobbed my prayers upon my bosom. (Psalms 35, 13)
My knees totter from fasting; my flesh has wasted away. (Psalms 109, 24)
But when they saw the army coming against them, they said to Judas: "How can we, few as we are, fight such a mighty host as this? Besides, we are weak today from fasting." (1 Maccabees 3, 17)
When they had all joined in doing this, and had implored the merciful LORD continuously with weeping and fasting and prostrations for three days, Judas encouraged them and told them to stand ready. (2 Maccabees 13, 12)
Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance: That a man bow his head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? (Isaiah 58, 5)
This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; (Isaiah 58, 6)
I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. (Daniel 9, 3)