Daniel 9:3 - The Scriptures 1998 So I set my face toward יהוה the Elohim to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I set my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes; American Standard Version (1901) And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. Common English Bible I then turned my face to my Lord God, asking for an answer with prayer and pleading, and with fasting, mourning clothes, and ashes. Catholic Public Domain Version And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to ask and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. English Standard Version 2016 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. |
Then Ezra rose up from before the House of Elohim, and went into the room of Yehoḥ
I then proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahawa, to humble ourselves before our Elohim, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions,
And at the evening offering I rose from my affliction. And having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to יהוה my Elohim,
But I, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth; I humbled my being with fastings; And my prayer would return to my own bosom.
And in that day the Master יהוה of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
‘Call unto Me, and I shall answer you, and show you great and inaccessible matters, which you have not known.’
‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Once again I shall let the house of Yisra’ĕ
And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Yisra’ĕ
And I prayed to יהוה my Elohim, and made confession, and said, “O יהוה, great and awesome Ě
Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Wail, you attendants of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you attendants of my Elohim. For the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your Elohim.
“Yet even now,” declares יהוה, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not leave the Set-apart Place, but served Elohim with fastings and prayers night and day.
And Cornelius said, “Four days ago I was fasting until this hour. And at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and see, a man stood before me in shining garments,