Bible Verses About Humiliation and Self-Affliction

So this shalbe an ordinance for euer vnto you: the tenth day of the seuenth moneth, yee shall humble your soules, and do no worke at all, whether it be one of the same countrey or a strager that soiourneth among you.

For that day shall ye Priest make an atonement for you to clense you: ye shalbe cleane from all your sinnes before the Lord.

This shall be a Sabbath of rest vnto you, and ye shall humble your soules, by an ordinance for euer.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

The tenth also of this seuenth moneth shalbe a day of reconciliation: it shalbe an holie conuocation vnto you, and yee shall humble your soules, and offer sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lord.

And ye shall doe no worke that same day: for it is a day of reconciliation, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.

For euery person that humbleth not himselfe that same day, shall euen be cut off from his people.

And euery person that shall doe any work that same day, the same person also will I destroy from among his people.

Ye shall do no maner worke therefore: this shalbe a law for euer in your generations, throughout all your dwellings.

This shalbe vnto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall humble your soules: in the ninth day of the moneth at euen, from euen to euen shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.

And there at the Riuer, by Ahaua, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our God, and seeke of him a right way for vs, and for our children, and for all our substance.

For I was ashamed to require of the King an armie and horsemen, to helpe vs against the enemie in the way, because we had spoken to the King, saying, The hande of our God is vpon all them that seeke him in goodnesse, but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

So we fasted, aud besought our God for this: and he was intreated of vs.