Bible Verses About Humiliation and Self-Affliction: Enjoined

`And it hath been to you for a statute age-during, in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, ye humble yourselves, and do no work--the native, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst;

for on this day he maketh atonement for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins before Jehovah ye are clean;

it is to you a sabbath of rest, and ye have humbled yourselves--a statute age-during.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Only--on the tenth of this seventh month is a day of atonements; ye have a holy convocation, and ye have humbled yourselves, and have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah;

and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God.

`For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people;

and any person who doth any work in this self-same day I have even destroyed that person from the midst of his people;

ye do no work--a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings.

It is a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.'

And I proclaim there a fast, by the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our infants, and for all our substance,

for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, `The hand of our God is upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath is upon all forsaking Him.'

And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.