Bible Verse
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.
Nehemiah 9:1
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When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
1 Kings 21:27
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.
Ezra 10:6
‘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.
Isaiah 58:3
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?

