7 Bible Verses about Fasting, Accompanied By

So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.

I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

The Israelites gathered at Mizpah. They drew some water, poured it out in front of Jehovah and fasted that day. They confessed: We have sinned against Jehovah. So Samuel judged Israel in Mizpah.

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies. The seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations. They publicly requested forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.

Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!

I fell down before Jehovah. Like the first, forty days and nights I did not eat or drink. This was because of all your sin you committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger.

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies.