Bible Verses About Humiliation and Self-Affliction

"It is to be a permanent regulation for you that on the tenth day of the seventh month you are to deny yourselves and not do any kind of work, both the citizen and the foreigner living with you.

For on this day, atonement will be made for you to purify you; you will be clean before ADONAI from all your sins.

It is a Shabbat of complete rest for you, and you are to deny yourselves. "This is a permanent regulation.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"The tenth day of this seventh month is Yom-Kippur; you are to have a holy convocation, you are to deny yourselves, and you are to bring an offering made by fire to ADONAI.

You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before ADONAI your God.

Anyone who does not deny himself on that day is to be cut off from his people;

and anyone who does any kind of work on that day, I will destroy from among his people.

You are not to do any kind of work; it is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.

It will be for you a Shabbat of complete rest, and you are to deny yourselves; you are to rest on your Shabbat from evening the ninth day of the month until the following evening."

Then, there at the Ahava River, I proclaimed a fast; so that we could humble ourselves before our God and ask a safe journey of him for ourselves, our little ones and all our possessions.

For I would have been ashamed to ask the king for a detachment of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies along the road, since we had said to the king, "The hand of our God is on all who seek him, for good; but his power and fury is against all who abandon him."

So we fasted and asked our God for this, and he answered our prayer.