7 Bible Verses about Fasting In Mourning

Year after year when Peninnah went to the Temple of Jehovah, she kept on provoking Hannah. It bothered Hannah so much she wept and did not eat. Her husband Elkanah said to her: Hannah, why are you weeping? Why are you not eating? Why is your heart troubled? Am I not more to you than ten sons?

Jonathan was angry that his father had insulted David. He got up and left the table. He did not eat anything all that day.

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

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

They buried the bones under a small tree in Jabesh. Then for seven days, they went without eating to show their sorrow.

They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of Jehovah, because so many had been killed in battle.

Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib. When he arrived there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.