Blow the ram's horn in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not delight in your solemn assemblies.

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?

Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day. My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.

And you who held fast to Jehovah your God are alive, every one of you, this day.

They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.

And day coming on, going out, He went into a deserted place. And the crowds looked for Him and came to Him, and held Him fast, not to pass away from them.