7 Bible Verses about Fasting In Mourning

And so he used to do year after year; {whenever} she went up to the house of Yahweh, she would provoke her so that she would weep and would not eat. So Elkanah her husband would say to her: "Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And {why are you heartsick}? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

Jonathan got up from the table {enraged}, and did not eat on the second day of the new moon because he was upset about David, because his father had disgraced him.

When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me.

"And even now," {declares} Yahweh, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and wailing."

Then they took their bones and buried [them] under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted [for] seven days.

Then they mourned and wept and fasted over Saul and Jonathan his son until the evening, [as well] as over the people of Yahweh and over the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword.

Ezra rose from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. He did not eat food nor drink water because he was mourning over the sin of the exiles.