Ezra 8:21

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I proclaimed a fast in that place, beside the river Ahava, so that we might afflict ourselves in the sight of the Lord our God, and so that we might request of him the right way for us, and for our sons, and for all our substance.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

Then Jehoshaphat, being terrified with fear, gave himself entirely to petitioning the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all of Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:4

And Judah gathered together to pray to the Lord. Moreover, everyone from their cities came to beseech him.

Ezra 8:15

Now I gathered them together at the river that runs down to Ahava, and we stayed there for three days. And I sought among the people and among the priests for the sons of Levi, and I found none there.

Ezra 8:31

Therefore, we set out from the river Ahava, on the twelfth day of the first month, so that we might travel to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was over us, and he freed us from the hand of the enemy and of those who lay in ambush along the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

Then, on the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the sons of Israel came together in fasting and in sackcloth, and with soil upon them.

Esther 4:16

And so she was led to the chamber of king Artaxerxes, in the tenth month, which is called Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Psalm 137:1

Of David himself. O Lord, I will confess to you with my whole heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth. I will sing psalms to you in the sight of the Angels.

Psalm 5:8

But I am in the multitude of your mercy. I will enter your house. I will show adoration toward your holy temple, in your fear.

Psalm 5:9

Lord, lead me in your justice. Because of my enemies, direct my way in your sight.

Psalm 8:2

O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.

Isaiah 30:21

And your ears will listen to the word of one admonishing you behind your back: "This is the way! Walk in it! And do not turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left."

Isaiah 35:8

And there shall be a path and a road in that place. And it will be called the Holy Way. The defiled will not pass through it. For this will be an upright path for you, so much so that the foolish will not wander along it.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will lead the blind along a way which they do not know. And I will cause them to walk along paths with which they were unfamiliar. I will turn darkness into light before them, and crooked into straight. These things I have done for them. For I have not abandoned them.

Isaiah 49:10

They will not hunger or thirst, nor will the heat of the sun beat down upon them. For the one who takes pity on them will rule them, and he will give them to drink from fountains of waters.

Isaiah 58:3

"Why have we fasted, and you have not taken notice? Why have we humbled our souls, and you have not acknowledged it?" Behold, in the day of your fasting, your own will is found, and you petition for payment from all your debtors.

Isaiah 58:5

Is this a fast such as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day, to contort his head in a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? Should you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Jeremiah 10:23

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not his own. Neither is it given to man to walk and to direct his own steps.

Jeremiah 42:3

And so, may the Lord your God announce to us the way that we must travel, and the word that we must accomplish."

Daniel 9:3

And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to ask and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Joel 1:14

Sanctify a fast, call an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God. And cry out to the Lord:

Leviticus 16:29

And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and you shall do no work, neither someone native born, nor the newcomer who sojourns among you.

Leviticus 16:31

For it is a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls as a perpetual observance.

Leviticus 23:29

Every soul that has not been afflicted on this day shall perish from his people,

Jonah 3:5

And the men of Nineveh believed in God. And they proclaimed a fast, and they put on sackcloth, from the greatest all the way to the least.

Jonah 3:7

And he cried out and spoke: "In Nineveh, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, let it be said: Men and beasts and oxen and sheep may not taste anything. Neither shall they feed or drink water.

Numbers 14:3

"If only we had died in Egypt," and, "If only we would perish in this vast wilderness," and, "May the Lord not lead us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives, as well as our children, be led away as captives. Is it not better to return to Egypt?"

Numbers 14:31

But your little ones, about whom you said that they would be a prey to the enemies, I will lead them in, so that they may see the land that has displeased you.

Acts 2:39

For the Promise is for you and for your sons, and for all who are far away: for whomever the Lord our God will have called."

Judges 20:26

As a result, all the sons of Israel went to the house of God, and sitting down, they wept before the Lord. And they fasted that day until evening, and they offered to him holocausts and victims of peace offerings.

1 Samuel 7:6

And they convened at Mizpah. And they drew water, and they poured it out in the sight of the Lord. And on that day they fasted, and in that place they said, "We have sinned against the Lord." And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah.