Leviticus 23:32
It shall be unto you a sabbath of sabbaths, and ye shall afflict your souls, beginning in the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening unto evening, shall ye rest on your sabbath.
Leviticus 16:31
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a perpetual statute.
Leviticus 23:27
But the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of reconciliations; it shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made on fire unto the LORD.
Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer rose up in my bosom.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 69:10-11
When I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me.
Psalm 126:5-6
Those that sow with tears shall reap with joy.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus has said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is The Holy One; I dwell in the high place and in holiness and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to cause the spirit of the humble to live and to cause the heart of the contrite ones to live.
Isaiah 57:18-19
I have seen his ways and will heal him: I will lead him also and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 58:3-7
Why have we fasted, they say, and thou dost not see? why have we afflicted our soul, and thou dost take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure and exact your own estates.
Isaiah 61:3
to order in Zion those that mourn, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 11:28-30
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged.
Hebrews 4:3
(For we who have believed do enter into the rest) as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us therefore make haste to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.