Fondare 32 Risultati per: Fasting
The tenth day of this seventh month is to be solemnly observed as a day of fasting, and also of rest from work. (Numbers 29, 7)
It may be a wife will bind herself by an oath, vowing to mortify herself by fasting or some other kind of abstinence; it is for her husband to decide whether she is to keep it or not. (Numbers 30, 14)
Then, on the twenty-fourth day of this same month, the men of Israel met together, fasting, and with sackcloth about them, and sprinkled with dust, (Nehemiah 9, 1)
Prayer, fasting, and alms, said he, here is better treasure to lay up than any store of gold. (Tobit 12, 8)
So it was everywhere; never a province, town or district the cruel edict reached but there was mourning and fasting, wailing and weeping among the Jewish folk, and of sackcloth and ashes many among them made their beds. (Esther 4, 3)
for keeping Purim feast with yearly rejoicing. And they, at the bidding of Mardochaeus and Esther, bound themselves and their children to keep it in mind; the fasting, and the cries for aid, the casting of the lots, (Esther 9, 31)
Laid aside were those royal robes of hers, her array must tell only of grief and lament; dust and dung should be all her anointing now. Her body she tamed with fasting; only her torn locks hung where once she had loved to adorn her beauty. (Esther 14, 2)
What more could I do? I humbled myself before them by fasting; and that, too, was matter for finding fault; (Psalms 68, 11)
My knees are weak with fasting, my strength pines away unnourished. (Psalms 108, 24)
better fall to work and have a full belly than keep thy pride and go fasting. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 30)
Why hadst thou no eyes for it, say they, when we fasted; why didst thou pass by unheeding, when we humbled ourselves before thee?Fasting, when you follow your own whim, distrain upon all your debtors! (Isaiah 58, 3)
With such fasting, with a day’s penance, should I be content? Is it enough that a man should bow down to earth, make his bed on sackcloth and ashes? Think you, by such a fasting-day, to win the Lord’s favour? (Isaiah 58, 5)
