Add parallel Print Page Options

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.”

Read full chapter

32 It is a day of sabbath rest(A) for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”(B)

Read full chapter

13 But I, (A)when they were sick—
    I (B)wore sackcloth;
    I (C)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed (D)with head bowed[a] on my chest.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:13 Or my prayer shall turn back

13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth(A)
    and humbled myself with fasting.(B)
When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

Read full chapter

(A)‘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,[a]
    (B)and oppress all your workers.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 58:3 Or pursue your own business

‘Why have we fasted,’(A) they say,
    ‘and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled(B) ourselves,
    and you have not noticed?’(C)

“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please(D)
    and exploit all your workers.

Read full chapter

(A)Is such the fast that I choose,
    (B)a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
    and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
    and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Read full chapter

Is this the kind of fast(A) I have chosen,
    only a day for people to humble(B) themselves?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed(C)
    and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?(D)
Is that what you call a fast,
    a day acceptable to the Lord?

Read full chapter

12 Then he said to me, (A)“Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you (B)set your heart to understand and (C)humbled yourself before your God, (D)your words have been heard, (E)and I have come because of your words.

Read full chapter

12 Then he continued, “Do not be afraid,(A) Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble(B) yourself before your God, your words(C) were heard, and I have come in response to them.(D)

Read full chapter