Nehemiah 1:4

New King James Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the Lord.

2 Chronicles 6:13

(for Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven);

Ezra 1:2

Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very bitterly.

Ezra 9:3

So when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down astonished.

Ezra 9:5

At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God.

Nehemiah 2:20

So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”

Nehemiah 2:4

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

Psalm 102:15

So the nations shall fear the name of the Lord, And all the kings of the earth Your glory.

Psalm 136:26

Oh, give thanks to the God of heaven! For His mercy endures forever.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept When we remembered Zion.

Daniel 10:2

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.

Daniel 2:18

that they might seek mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 9:3

Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Jonah 1:9

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

Zephaniah 3:18

“I will gather those who sorrow over the appointed assembly, Who are among you, To whom its reproach is a burden.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.