¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

²⁵ Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

¹³ If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you.

¹⁰ When I wept and I fasted, That was to my reproach.

¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

⁶ If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

¹⁴ Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

¹⁵ Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

⁵ Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

³ Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.

²⁷ It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

²⁸ The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

²⁹ See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.

³¹ It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.

²⁹ "It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you: