Psalms 35:13

WEB

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

KJV

¹³But as for me, when they were sick^[+], my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

BSB

¹³Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

FBV

¹³^[+] But when they were sick, I put on clothes of sackcloth^[+] in sympathy. I denied myself through fasting. May my prayer for them return to bless me too.

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Extra References

Psalms 69:10-11

¹⁰When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. ¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Job 30:25

²⁵Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

Matthew 5:44

⁴⁴^[+] But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Matthew 10:13

¹³If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.

Leviticus 16:31

³¹It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

Isaiah 58:5

⁵Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Romans 12:14-15

¹⁴Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse. ¹⁵Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Luke 10:6

⁶If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

1 Kings 21:27-29

²⁷When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.

²⁸The LORD’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ²⁹“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

Leviticus 16:29

²⁹“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;