Nehemiah 1:4 - Modern English Version

⁴ When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days. Then I fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ When I heard this, I sat down and wept and mourned for days and fasted and prayed [constantly] before the God of heaven,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Common English Bible

⁴ When I heard this news, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And when I had heard this manner of words, I sat down, and I wept and mourned for many days. I fasted and prayed before the face of the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 1:4 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 12:16

David entreated God on behalf of the child. He fasted for a period, and he would go in and lie throughout the night on the ground.

2 Kings 22:19

Because your heart was timid, and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.

2 Chronicles 6:13

For Solomon made a bronze platform and set it in the midst of the enclosure. It was five cubits in length, five cubits in width, and three cubits in height. And he stood on it and knelt down before all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands to heaven.

Ezra 1:2

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: “The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has charged me to build Him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large congregation of men, women, and children gathered around him from Israel, for the people too wept bitterly.

Ezra 9:3

When I heard this, I tore my clothes and my robe, plucked out the hair of my head and from my beard, and sat down astonished.

Ezra 9:5

At the evening sacrifice I rose up from my heaviness and, despite having my clothes and my robe torn, I knelt on my knees and stretched out my hands in prayer to the Lord my God

Nehemiah 2:20

Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you will have no portion, or right, or memorial in Jerusalem.”

Nehemiah 2:4

So the king said to me, “What are you requesting about this matter?” Immediately, I prayed to the God of heaven

Psalm 102:15

So the nations will 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 and wept when we remembered Zion.

Daniel 10:2

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

Daniel 2:18

so that they might ask for compassion 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

I set my face toward the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Jonah 1:9

Jonah replied, “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 grieve for the appointed festival, which is a reproach and burden on you.

Romans 12:15

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