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Isaiah 58:5

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 as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

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Isaiah 58:5

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 as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

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1 Nephi 8 — The Tree, the Rod, and the Building — Two Geographies of the Soul
1 Nephi 18 — The Ship, the Bound Prophet, and the Sea That Obeys the Compass
2 Nephi 22 — Isaiah 12 — The Song of Salvation, the Wells of Yeshua, and Zion's Inhabitant Shouting
Alma 6 — Reordering the Church at Zarahemla — the Laying On of Hands, the Discipline of the Unrepentant, and the Journey to Gideon
Alma 35 — It Did Destroy Their Craft — The Fallout of the Word, the People of Ammon's Open Hand, and a Father Gathering His Sons
Ether 10 — Never Could Be a People More Blessed — The Tyrant, the Long Captivities, and a Land at Its Height
Jacob 1 — The Plates Pass to Jacob — Magnifying the Office, the Anxiety for Souls, and the Naming of Kings
Jacob 2 — Tender Feelings Wounded — Jacob's Temple Sermon on Pride, Riches, and the David-Solomon Sin
Mosiah 4 — Fallen as Dead — The Cry for Mercy, Retaining a Remission, Are We Not All Beggars, and Watch Yourselves
Doctrine and Covenants 59 — A Glad Heart and a Cheerful Countenance
1 Kings 18 — The God That Answereth by Fire — Obadiah's Hidden Hundred, the Question on Carmel, the Drenched Altar, and the Cloud Like a Man's Hand
Esther 9 — The Day That Was Turned — The Great Reversal, the Hand Held Back from the Spoil, and the Feast That Remembers a God Who Is Never Named

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