David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.
Daniel 9:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I set my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes; American Standard Version (1901) And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. Common English Bible I then turned my face to my Lord God, asking for an answer with prayer and pleading, and with fasting, mourning clothes, and ashes. Catholic Public Domain Version And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to ask and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. English Standard Version 2016 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. |
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.
Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
I proclaimed a fast by the River Ahava, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.
At the evening offering, I got up from my time of humiliation, with my tunic and robe torn. Then I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God.
On the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.
‘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.’
Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them; I am dust and ashes. ,
On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.
‘ “This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.
When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upstairs room opened towards Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.
While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain of my God #– #
I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: Ah, Lord #– #the great and awe-inspiring God who keeps his gracious covenant with those who love him and keep his commands #– #
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.
Even now – this is the Lord’s declaration – turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth #– #from the greatest of them to the least.
and was a widow for eighty-four years. She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.
Cornelius replied, ‘Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in dazzling clothing stood before me