Ezra 8:21

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

Frightened, Jehoshaphat resolved to consult the Lord. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:4

Then Judah gathered to seek the Lord’s help; from every one of the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord. Jehoshaphat’s Prayer.

Ezra 8:15

I assembled them by the river that flows toward Ahava, where we camped for three days. There I perceived that both laymen and priests were present, but I could not discover a single Levite.

Ezra 8:31

We set out from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God remained over us, and he protected us from enemies and robbers along the way.

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.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat weeping when we remembered Zion.

Psalm 5:8

But I, through the abundance of your mercy, will enter into your house. I will bow down toward your holy sanctuary out of fear of you.

Psalm 5:9

Lord, guide me in your justice because of my foes; make straight your way before me.

Psalm 8:2

O Lord, our Lord, how awesome is your name through all the earth! I will sing of your majesty above the heavens

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways be mindful of him, and he will make straight your paths.

Isaiah 30:21

And your ears shall hear a word behind you: “This is the way; walk in it,” when you would turn to the right or the left.

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there, called the holy way; No one unclean may pass over it, but it will be for his people; no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray on it.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind on a way they do not know; by paths they do not know I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These are my promises: I made them, I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 49:10

They shall not hunger or thirst; nor shall scorching wind or sun strike them; For he who pities them leads them and guides them beside springs of water.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why do we fast, but you do not see it? afflict ourselves, but you take no note?” See, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers.

Isaiah 58:5

Is this the manner of fasting I would choose, a day to afflict oneself? To bow one’s head like a reed, and lie upon sackcloth and ashes? Is this what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?

Jeremiah 10:23

I know, Lord, that no one chooses their way, Nor determines their course nor directs their own step.

Jeremiah 42:3

May the Lord, your God, show us the way we should take and what we should do.”

Daniel 9:3

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

Joel 1:14

Proclaim a holy fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, To the house of the Lord, your God, and cry out to the Lord!

Leviticus 16:29

This shall be an everlasting statute for you: on the tenth day of the seventh month every one of you, whether a native or a resident alien, shall humble yourselves and shall do no work.

Leviticus 16:31

It shall be a sabbath of complete rest for you, on which you must humble yourselves—an everlasting statute.

Leviticus 23:29

Those who do not humble themselves on this day shall be cut off from the people.

Jonah 3:5

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

Jonah 3:7

Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh: “By decree of the king and his nobles, no man or beast, no cattle or sheep, shall taste anything; they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water.

Numbers 14:3

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land only to have us fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be taken as spoil. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

Numbers 14:31

Your little ones, however, who you said would be taken as spoil, I will bring in, and they shall know the land you rejected.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.”

Judges 20:26

So the entire Israelite army went up and entered Bethel, where they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and communion offerings before the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:6

When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out on the ground before the Lord, and they fasted that day, saying, “We have sinned against the Lord.” It was at Mizpah that Samuel began to judge the Israelites. Rout of the Philistines.