Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD? Cross References Matthew 6:16 When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. Leviticus 16:31 It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute. 1 Kings 21:27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly. Ezra 8:21 And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. Isaiah 49:8 This is what the LORD says: "In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances, Isaiah 61:2 to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of our God's vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, Zechariah 7:5 "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? Treasury of Scripture Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? it such 2 Chronicles 20:3 Ezra 10:6 Nehemiah 9:1,2 a day for a man to afflict his soul. Isaiah 58:3 Leviticus 16:29 to spread 1 Kings 21:27-29 2 Kings 6:30 Job 2:8 an acceptable Isaiah 49:8 Isaiah 61:2 Psalm 69:13 |