Leviticus 23:32
It shall be to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall humble your souls. In the ninth of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your sabbath.
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.
Psalm 35:13
But when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fastings; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Psalm 69:10-11
When I humbled my soul with fasting, it turned to my reproach.
Psalm 126:5-6
Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Isaiah 57:15
For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 57:18-19
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 58:3-7
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.
Isaiah 61:3
to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn! For they shall be comforted.
Matthew 11:28-30
Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 4:11
Therefore let us labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.