Psalm 69:10
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- 69.10 Gk Syr: Heb I wept, with fasting my soul, or I made my soul mourn with fasting
Psalm 109:24-25
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24 My knees are weak through fasting;
my body has become gaunt.(A)
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads.(B)
Luke 7:33-34
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33 “For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’;(A) 34 the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’(B)
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Psalm 102:8-9
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8 All day long my enemies taunt me;
those who deride me use my name for a curse.(A)
9 Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
and mingle tears with my drink,(B)
Psalm 35:13
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13 But as for me, when they were sick,
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed[a] on my bosom,(A)
Footnotes
- 35.13 Or My prayer turned back
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