Nehemiah 1:4

Legacy Standard Bible

Now it happened that when I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David therefore sought God about the boy; and David fasted and went and spent the night lying on the ground.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was soft and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become an object of horror, and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 6:13

Now Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.

Ezra 1:2

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly.

Ezra 9:3

When I heard about this matter, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled some of the hair from my head and my beard, and sat down in consternation.

Ezra 9:5

But at the evening offering I arose from my affliction, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to Yahweh my God;

Nehemiah 2:20

So I responded to them with a word and said to them, “The God of heaven will give us success; therefore we His slaves will arise and build, but you have no portion, right, or remembrance in Jerusalem.”

Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Psalm 102:15

So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh And all the kings of the earth Your glory.

Psalm 136:26

Give thanks to the God of heaven, For His lovingkindness endures forever.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat and also wept, When we remembered Zion.

Daniel 10:2

In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.

Daniel 2:18

so that they might seek compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 9:3

So I gave my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Jonah 1:9

And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Zephaniah 3:18

“I will assemble those who grieve about the appointed feasts— They were from you, O Zion; The reproach of exile is a burden on them.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep,