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Jeremiah 36:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

In the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month,  all the people of Jerusalem and all those coming in from Judah’s cities into Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

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Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved  to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast  for all Judah,


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


Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters  with a fire burning in front of him.


‘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.’


The Lord of Armies says this: ‘The fast of the fourth month,  the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth  will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.’


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.


In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah,  king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:


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


‘The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.  You are to hold a sacred assembly and practise self-denial;  you are to present a food offering to the Lord.


The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord.  They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.


When they gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out in the Lord’s presence.  They fasted that day,  and there they confessed, ‘We have sinned against the Lord.’  And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.


so you must go and read from the scroll #– #which you wrote at my dictation   #– #the words of the Lord in the hearing of the people at the temple of the Lord on a day of fasting. Read his words in the hearing of all the Judeans who are coming from their cities.


Announce a sacred fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the  Lord your God, and cry out to the  Lord.





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