Fasting and Prayer for Protection

^21 (A)Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river ^(B)Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, ^(C)to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

^9 (A)In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, ^(B)in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem ^(C)proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

^5 (A)And the people of Nineveh believed God. ^(B)They called for a fast and ^(C)put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.