Leviticus 23:32
It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath."
Leviticus 16:31
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.
Leviticus 23:27
"Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD.
Psalm 35:13
But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalm 69:10-11
When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
Psalm 126:5-6
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:18-19
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
Isaiah 58:3-7
'Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?' Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.
Isaiah 61:3
to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Matthew 5:4
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 11:28-30
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
1 Corinthians 11:31
But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'"although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.