1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.

3 And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

 13 But as for me, when they were sick,
          My clothing was sackcloth;
          I humbled myself with fasting;
          And my prayer would return to my own heart.

10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
          That became my reproach.

24 My knees are weak through fasting,
          And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

1 “Cry aloud, spare not;
       Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
       Tell My people their transgression,
       And the house of Jacob their sins.
       2 Yet they seek Me daily,
       And delight to know My ways,
       As a nation that did righteousness,
       And did not forsake the ordinance of their God.
       They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;
       They take delight in approaching God.
       3 ‘ Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen?
       Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’

       “ In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
       And exploit all your laborers.
       4 Indeed you fast for strife and debate,
       And to strike with the fist of wickedness.
       You will not fast as you do this day,
       To make your voice heard on high.
       5 Is it a fast that I have chosen,
       A day for a man to afflict his soul?
       Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
       And to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
       Would you call this a fast,
       And an acceptable day to the LORD?
       6 “ Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
       To loose the bonds of wickedness,
       To undo the heavy burdens,
       To let the oppressed go free,
       And that you break every yoke?
       7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
       And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
       When you see the naked, that you cover him,
       And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
       8 Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
       Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
       And your righteousness shall go before you;
       The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
       9 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;
       You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’

       “ If you take away the yoke from your midst,
       The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
       10 If you extend your soul to the hungry
       And satisfy the afflicted soul,
       Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
       And your darkness shall be as the noonday.
       11 The LORD will guide you continually,
       And satisfy your soul in drought,
       And strengthen your bones;
       You shall be like a watered garden,
       And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
       12 Those from among you
       Shall build the old waste places;
       You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
       And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
       The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
       13 “ If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
       From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
       And call the Sabbath a delight,
       The holy day of the LORD honorable,
       And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
       Nor finding your own pleasure,
       Nor speaking your own words,
       14 Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD;
       And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
       And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
       The mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

6 You go, therefore, and read from the scroll which you have written at my instruction,[a] the words of the LORD, in the hearing of the people in the LORD’s house on the day of fasting. And you shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities.

18 Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians[a] were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him.

3 Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

12 “ Now, therefore,” says the LORD,

       “ Turn to Me with all your heart,
       With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”

16 “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

32 Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”

21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

3 And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.”

9 Now as they came down from the mountain, He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

33 Then they said to Him, “Why do[a] the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”
34 And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”
36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one;[b] otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.[c] 39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately[d] desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

30 So Cornelius said, “Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour[a] I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

23 So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

33 And as day was about to dawn, Paul implored them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have waited and continued without food, and eaten nothing.

5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.