Daniel 9:3
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3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by (A)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
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Jeremiah 33:3
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3 (A)Call to me and I will answer you, (B)and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
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Jeremiah 29:10-13
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10 “For thus says the Lord: (A)When seventy years are completed for Babylon, (B)I will visit you, (C)and I will fulfill to you my promise (D)and bring you back to this place. 11 (E)For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare[a] and not for evil, (F)to give you a future and a hope. 12 (G)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (H)and I will hear you. 13 (I)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (J)with all your heart.
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- Jeremiah 29:11 Or peace
James 5:16-18
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16 Therefore, (A)confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, (B)that you may be healed. (C)The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.[a] 17 Elijah was a man (D)with a nature like ours, and (E)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for (F)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 (G)Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
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- James 5:16 Or The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power
Nehemiah 1:4-11
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Nehemiah's Prayer
4 As soon as I heard these words I (A)sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the (B)God of heaven. 5 And I said, “O Lord God of heaven, (C)the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 6 (D)let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, (E)confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even (F)I and my father's house have sinned. 7 (G)We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules (H)that you commanded your servant Moses. 8 Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, (I)I will scatter you among the peoples, 9 (J)but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, (K)though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them (L)to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’ 10 (M)They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. 11 O Lord, (N)let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
Now I was (O)cupbearer to the king.
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Esther 4:16
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16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for (A)three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, (B)and if I perish, I perish.”[a]
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- Esther 4:16 Hebrew if I am destroyed, then I will be destroyed
Ezra 9:5
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5 And at the (A)evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment (B)and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees (C)and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,
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James 4:8-10
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8 (A)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (B)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (C)purify your hearts, (D)you double-minded. 9 (E)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (F)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Ezra 10:6
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6 Then Ezra withdrew (A)from before the house of God and went to the (B)chamber of (C)Jehohanan the son of (D)Eliashib, where he spent the night,[a] neither (E)eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
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- Ezra 10:6 Probable reading; Hebrew where he went
Ezra 8:21
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Fasting and Prayer for Protection
21 (A)Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river (B)Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, (C)to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
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Daniel 6:10
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10 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where (A)he had windows in his upper chamber open (B)toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees (C)three times a day and prayed and (D)gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.
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Psalm 102:13-17
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13 You will (A)arise and have (B)pity on Zion;
it is the time to favor her;
(C)the appointed time has come.
14 For your servants hold her (D)stones dear
and have pity on her dust.
15 Nations will (E)fear the name of the Lord,
and all (F)the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
16 For the Lord (G)builds up Zion;
he (H)appears in his glory;
17 he (I)regards the prayer of the destitute
and does not despise their prayer.
Acts 10:30
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30 And Cornelius said, (A)“Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at (B)the ninth hour,[a] and behold, (C)a man stood before me in bright clothing
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- Acts 10:30 That is, 3 p.m.
Luke 2:37
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37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four.[a] She did not depart from the temple, (A)worshiping with (B)fasting and prayer night and day.
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- Luke 2:37 Or as a widow for eighty-four years
Joel 2:12
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Return to the Lord
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
(A)“return to me with all your heart,
(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Joel 1:13
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Ezekiel 36:37
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37 “Thus says the Lord God: This also (A)I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: (B)to increase their people like (C)a flock.
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Psalm 69:10-11
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10 When I wept and humbled[a] my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11 When I made (A)sackcloth my clothing,
I became (B)a byword to them.
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- Psalm 69:10 Hebrew lacks and humbled
Psalm 35:13
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13 But I, (A)when they were sick—
I (B)wore sackcloth;
I (C)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed (D)with head bowed[a] on my chest.
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- Psalm 35:13 Or my prayer shall turn back
Esther 4:1-3
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Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
4 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes (A)and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. 2 He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth. 3 And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, (B)with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them (C)lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Nehemiah 9:1
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The People of Israel Confess Their Sin
9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of (A)this month the people of Israel were assembled (B)with fasting (C)and in sackcloth, (D)and with earth on their heads.
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Jonah 3:6-9
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The People of Nineveh Repent
6 The word reached[a] the king of Nineveh, and (A)he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, (B)and sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, (C)“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor (D)beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and (E)beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. (F)Let everyone turn from his evil way and from (G)the violence that is in his hands. 9 (H)Who knows? God may turn and relent (I)and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
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- Jonah 3:6 Or had reached
Daniel 10:2-3
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2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for (A)three weeks. 3 I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I (B)anoint myself at all, for (C)the full three weeks.
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Isaiah 22:12
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12 In that day (A)the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for (B)baldness and (C)wearing sackcloth;
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