Talált 19 Eredmények: fasting

• On hearing this I sat down and wept; for some days I mourned, fasting and praying before the God of heaven. (Nehemiah 1, 4)

• 'Prayer with fasting and alms with uprightness are better than riches with iniquity. Better to practise almsgiving than to hoard up gold. (Tobit 12, 8)

• And in every province, no sooner had the royal command and edict arrived, than among the Jews there was great mourning, fasting, weeping and wailing, and many lay on sackcloth and ashes. (Esther 4, 3)

• But I, when they were ill, had worn sackcloth, and mortified myself with fasting, praying ever anew in my heart, (Psalms 35, 13)

• I mortify myself with fasting, and find myself insulted for it, (Psalms 69, 10)

• When they had all, with one voice, obeyed his instructions and had made their petitions to the merciful Lord, weeping, fasting and prostrating themselves for three days continuously, Judas spoke words of encouragement and told them to keep close to him. (2 Maccabees 13, 12)

• look, the only purpose of your fasting is to quarrel and squabble and strike viciously with your fist. Fasting like yours today will never make your voice heard on high. (Isaiah 58, 4)

• Is that the sort of fast that pleases me, a day when a person inflicts pain on himself? Hanging your head like a reed, spreading out sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call fasting, a day acceptable to Yahweh? (Isaiah 58, 5)

• The king returned to his palace, spent the night in fasting and refused to receive any of his concubines. Sleep eluded him, (Daniel 6, 19)

• I turned my face to the Lord God begging for time to pray and to plead, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes. (Daniel 9, 3)

• 'But now -- declares Yahweh- come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning.' (Joel 2, 12)

• and to ask the priests in the Temple of Yahweh Sabaoth and the prophets, 'Ought I to go on mourning and fasting in the fifth month as I have been doing for so many years past?' (Zechariah 7, 3)