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Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he continued to mourn over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
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‘Why have we fasted,` they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?` “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.
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Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one`s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?
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“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
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