2 Samuel 12:16

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

David therefore pleaded with God for the child; David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.

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2 Samuel 12:15

Then Nathan went to his house. The Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it became very ill.

2 Samuel 12:22

He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me, and the child may live.’

2 Samuel 13:31

The king rose, tore his garments, and lay on the ground; and all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

Nehemiah 1:4

When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Psalm 50:15

Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

Psalm 69:10

When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth;

Isaiah 26:16

O Lord, in distress they sought you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no food was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned to the Lord God, to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

Acts 9:9

For three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.