When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days; and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Daniel 10:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks. American Standard Version (1901) In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks. Common English Bible During that time, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three weeks. Catholic Public Domain Version In those days, I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks of days. English Standard Version 2016 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. |
When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days; and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
I say to God, my rock: “Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
For thou art the God in whom I take refuge; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her;
O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
And if any one would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes; if any one would harm them, thus he is doomed to be killed.