Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is vain to serve God; and, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?
Leviticus 16:29
And it shall be a statute forever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, the native and the alien who is staying among you.
Nehemiah 5:7
And my heart within myself ruled, and I rebuked the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact interest, each one from his brother. And I held a great gathering against them.
Exodus 2:23-24
And it happened after many days the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Leviticus 16:31
It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
Leviticus 23:27
Also, on the tenth of this seventh month, this is a day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. And you shall afflict your souls and offer a fire offering to Jehovah.
Numbers 23:4
And God met Balaam. And he said to Him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon the altar a bull and a ram.
Psalm 69:10
When I humbled my soul with fasting, it turned to my reproach.
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is a hateful thing.
Isaiah 22:13
Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.
Jeremiah 34:9-17
that each man should let his male slave, and each man his female slave, if a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, to go free, that none should enslave a Jew, his brother among them.
Daniel 10:2-3
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.
Jonah 3:6-8
For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne. And he laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Micah 3:9-11
Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.
Zechariah 7:5-7
Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?
Matthew 18:28-35
But the same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. And he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe.
Matthew 20:11-12
And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
Luke 15:29
And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.
Luke 18:9-12
And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others: