Psalms 35:13 Cross References - Thomson

¹³ As for me, while they were raising troubles against me I cloathed myself with sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting. Though my prayer is to return into mine own bosom,

²⁹ And this shall be to you an everlasting rite. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls, and do no work, whether native or the proselyte who dwelleth among you;

³¹ This rest shall be to you a sabbath of sabbaths, and you shall humble your souls. It is an everlasting statute.

²⁷ yet as Achab was struck with compunction at this message on account of the Lord, and went away weeping; and as he had rent his clothes and girded sackcloth on his body and fasted; for he had put on sackcloth on the day he smote Nabuthi the Jezraelite; therefore when he went away, ²⁸ a word of the Lord came by the hand of his servant Elias concerning Achab, and the Lord said, ²⁹ Hast thou seen how Achab is struck with compunction on account of me? I will not bring on the calamity in his days; but in the days of his sons I will bring it on.

²⁵ As for me I indeed wept for every one in trouble; and sighed, when I saw a man in distress.

¹⁰ When I bowed down my soul with fasting; it furnished occasion for reproaching me. ¹¹ When I clothed myself with sackcloth, I became to them a proverb;

³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul.

⁵ This is not such a fast as I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day. No: though thou shouldst bend thy neck like a hook and lay sackcloth and ashes under thee: even in that case you are not to call it an acceptable fast.

⁴⁴ But I say to you, Love your enemies. Bless them who curse you. Do good to them who hate you: and pray for them who spitefully use you and persecute you;

¹⁴ Then John's disciples, accosting him, said, Why do we and the Pharisees fast frequently, but thy disciples never fast? ¹⁵ And to them Jesus said, Can bridemen mourn, while the bridegroom is with them? The days indeed will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them and then they will fast.

¹³ And if the family be worthy, the peace you wish them will come upon them; but if they be not worthy, the peace you wish will rebound upon your selves.

⁶ And if the son of peace be there, your peace will rest upon it; but if not, it will return to you. And

¹⁴ Bless them who persecute you"bless and curse not. ¹⁵ Set your hearts on this with respect to each other"to rejoice with them who rejoice, and to weep with them who weep.