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Daniel 9:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

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Call to me and I will answer you  and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.


‘Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days,  night or day. I and my female servants will also fast  in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law.  If I perish, I perish.’


At the evening offering, I got up from my time of humiliation, with my tunic and robe torn. Then I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God.


Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.  He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.


I proclaimed a fast  by the River Ahava,  so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.


Cornelius replied, ‘Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon,  I was  praying in my house. Just then a man in dazzling clothing stood before me


and was a widow for eighty-four years.  She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.


Even now – this is the  Lord’s declaration – turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.


Dress in sackcloth and lament,  you priests; wail,  you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.


‘ “This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them:  I will multiply them in number like a flock.


When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upstairs room opened towards Jerusalem,  and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God,  just as he had done before.


On the twenty-fourth day of this month  the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.


On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping,  for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.


in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.


I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: Ah, Lord #– #the great and awe-inspiring God  who keeps his gracious covenant  with those who love him  and keep his commands   #– #


While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel,  and presenting my petition before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain of my God #– #


Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast  and dressed in sackcloth #– #from the greatest of them to the least.


David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.


Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them; I am dust and ashes.  ,





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