David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
Daniel 9:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and 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 therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Yehochanan the son of Elyashiv: and [when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God;
Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Yisra'el were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.
*Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.*
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
In that day, the Lord, the LORD of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
Thus says the Lord GOD: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Yisra'el, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
When Daniyel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Yerushalayim) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
in the first year of his reign I, Daniyel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of the LORD came to Yirmeyahu the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Yerushalayim, even seventy years.
While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Yisra'el, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his mitzvot,
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you Kohanim! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
*Yet even now,* says the LORD, *turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.*
The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
Cornelius said, *Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,