have we fasted

Numbers 23:4
and God met with him. "I have set up seven altars, " Balaam said, "and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."

Micah 3:9-11
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right, . . .

Zechariah 7:5-7
"Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? . . .

Malachi 3:14
You have said, 'It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

Matthew 20:11, 12
On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner. . . .

Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, 'Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Luke 18:9-12
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: . . .

afflicted

Leviticus 16:29, 31
This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work--whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you-- . . .

Leviticus 23:27
"The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and humble your souls and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Psalm 69:10
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

in

Daniel 10:2, 3
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks. . . .

Jonah 3:6-8
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. . . .

exact

Nehemiah 5:7
and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, "You are exacting usury from your own brothers!" So I called a large assembly against them

Proverbs 28:9
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

Jeremiah 34:9-17
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage. . . .

Matthew 18:28-35
But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe me.' . . .

labours.

Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even upon the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Exodus 2:23, 24
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. . . .