Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
Numbers 29:7 - Revised Standard Version “On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and afflict yourselves; you shall do no work, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy [summoned] assembly; [it is the great Day of Atonement, a day of humiliation] and you shall humble and abase yourselves; you shall not do any work in it. American Standard Version (1901) And on the tenth day of this seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall do no manner of work; Common English Bible The tenth day of this seventh month will be a holy occasion for you. You will deny yourselves and not do any work. Catholic Public Domain Version Likewise, the tenth day of this seventh month shall be for you holy and venerable, and you shall afflict your souls. You shall do no servile work in it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The tenth day also of this seventh month shall be holy and venerable unto you: and you shall afflict your souls. You shall do no servile work therein. |
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,
In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a first-born.
and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.
I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”
As much time had been lost, and the voyage was already dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,
We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.