Ezra 8:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
21 And there at the river, by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble [a]ourselves before our God, and seek of him a right way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance.
22 For I was [b]ashamed to require of the king an army and horsemen, to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness, but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
23 So we fasted, and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
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- Ezra 8:21 He showeth that the end of fasting, is to humble the body to the spirit, which must proceed of the heart lively touched, or else it is but hypocrisy.
- Ezra 8:22 He thought it better to commit himself to the protection of God, than by seeking these ordinary means to give occasion to others to think that he did doubt of God’s power.
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