Daniel 9:3

New American Bible - revised edition

I turned to the Lord God, to seek help, in prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David pleaded with God on behalf of the child. He kept a total fast, and spent the night lying on the ground clothed in sackcloth.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra left his place before the house of God and entered the chamber of Johanan, son of Eliashib, where he spent the night neither eating food nor drinking water, for he was in mourning over the apostasy of the exiles.

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast, there by the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Ezra 9:5

Then, at the time of the evening sacrifice, I rose in my wretchedness, and with cloak and mantle torn I fell on my knees, stretching out my hands to the Lord, my God. A Penitential Prayer.

Nehemiah 9:1

On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites gathered together while fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

Job 42:6

Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes. Job’s Restoration.

Psalm 35:13

Yet I, when they were ill, put on sackcloth, afflicted myself with fasting, sobbed my prayers upon my bosom.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord, the God of hosts, called For weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to me, and I will answer you; I will tell you great things beyond the reach of your knowledge.

Ezekiel 36:37

Thus says the Lord God: This also I will be persuaded to do for the house of Israel: to multiply them like sheep.

Daniel 6:10

So King Darius signed the prohibition into law.

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years the Lord had decreed to the prophet Jeremiah: Jerusalem was to lie in ruins for seventy years.

Daniel 9:20

I was still praying to the Lord, my God, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, presenting my petition concerning the holy mountain of my God—

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the Lord, my God, and confessed, “Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, you who keep your covenant and show mercy toward those who love you and keep your commandments and your precepts!

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests! wail, ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! For the grain offering and the libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now—oracle of the Lord— return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Jonah 3:5

the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.

Matthew 17:21

] The Second Prediction of the Passion.

Luke 2:37

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.

Acts 10:30

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, three o’clock in the afternoon, I was at prayer in my house when suddenly a man in dazzling robes stood before me and said,