2 Samuel 12:22
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22 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, (A)‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
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Isaiah 38:1-3
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Hezekiah's Sickness and Recovery
38 (A)In those days Hezekiah became (B)sick and was at the point of death. And (C)Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”[a] 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how (D)I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
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- Isaiah 38:1 Or live; also verses 9, 21
Isaiah 38:5
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5 “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add (A)fifteen years to your life.[a]
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- Isaiah 38:5 Hebrew to your days
Jonah 3:9-10
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9 (A)Who knows? God may turn and relent (B)and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did, (C)how they turned from their evil way, (D)God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
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Jonah 1:6
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6 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, (A)call out to your god! (B)Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”
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Amos 5:15
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15 (A)Hate evil, and love good,
and establish justice (B)in the gate;
(C)it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Joel 2:14
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14 (A)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and (B)leave a blessing behind him,
(C)a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?
Joel 1:14
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14 (A)Consecrate a fast;
(B)call a solemn assembly.
Gather (C)the elders
and (D)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.
James 4:9-10
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9 (A)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (B)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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