Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted and you do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and you do not notice? Behold, on the day of your fast you find desire, and mistreat all your workers.'
Malachi 3:14
You have said: 'There is no value to serve God. What is the use of doing what he says or of trying to show Jehovah of Hosts that we are sorry for what we have done?'
Leviticus 16:29
The following regulations are to be observed for a long lasting time to come. On the tenth day of the seventh month the Israelites and the foreigners living among them must fast and must not do any work.
Nehemiah 5:7
After giving it much thought, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them: Everyone of you is collecting interest from his brothers. I organized a big meeting of protest.
Exodus 2:23-24
Time went by and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God.
Leviticus 16:31
That day is to be a very holy day, one on which they fast and do no work at all. These regulations are to be observed for a long lasting time to come.
Leviticus 23:27
The tenth day of this seventh month is a special day for the payment for sins. There will be a holy assembly. Humble yourselves, and bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire.
Numbers 23:4
God met him and Balaam said to God: I have built the seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each.
Psalm 69:10
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Proverbs 28:9
The prayer of the person who will not listen to the law is disgusting.
Isaiah 22:13
Instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people. I profaned my heritage and gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them. You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.
Jeremiah 34:9-17
Everyone was supposed to free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female. No one was supposed to keep another Jew as a slave.
Daniel 10:2-3
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
Jonah 3:6-8
The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes.
Micah 3:9-11
Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. You who abhor justice, and pervert honesty!
Zechariah 7:5-7
Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?
Matthew 18:28-35
Then that servant met another servant who was in debt to him for one hundred denarii. He took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay your debt now.'
Matthew 20:11-12
When they got it, they protested against the master of the house.
Luke 15:29
He spoke to his father in anger. All these years I have worked like a slave for you. I have never disobeyed you. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!
Luke 18:9-12
He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others: