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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2 Chronicles 20:3
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3 Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face (A)to seek the Lord, and (B)proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
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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.
Isaiah 30:21
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21 (A)And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is (B)the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
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1 Samuel 7:6
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6 So they gathered at (A)Mizpah (B)and drew water and poured it out before the Lord (C)and fasted on that day and said there, (D)“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
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Jonah 3:5
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5 (A)And the people of Nineveh believed God. (B)They called for a fast and (C)put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
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Leviticus 23:29
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29 For whoever is not afflicted[a] on that very day (A)shall be cut off from his people.
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- Leviticus 23:29 Or is not fasting
Leviticus 16:29
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29 “And it shall be a statute to you forever that (A)in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall (B)afflict yourselves[a] and shall do no work, either (C)the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.
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- Leviticus 16:29 Or shall fast; also verse 31
Joel 2:12-18
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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;
13 and (C)rend your hearts and not (D)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(E)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(F)and he relents over disaster.
14 (G)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and (H)leave a blessing behind him,
(I)a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?
15 (J)Blow the trumpet in Zion;
(K)consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
16 gather the people.
(L)Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
(M)gather the children,
even nursing infants.
(N)Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.
17 (O)Between the (P)vestibule and the (Q)altar
(R)let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations.[a]
(S)Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”
The Lord Had Pity
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- Joel 2:17 Or reproach, that the nations should rule over them
Psalm 143:8-10
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8 (A)Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
for in you I (B)trust.
(C)Make me know the way I should go,
(D)for to you I lift up my soul.
9 (E)Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord!
I have fled to you for refuge.[a]
10 (F)Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God!
(G)Let your good Spirit (H)lead me
on (I)level ground!
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- Psalm 143:9 One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts To you I have covered
Psalm 107:2-8
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2 Let (A)the redeemed of the Lord say so,
whom he has (B)redeemed from trouble[a]
3 and (C)gathered in from the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
4 Some (D)wandered in desert wastes,
finding no way (E)to a city to dwell in;
5 hungry and thirsty,
their soul (F)fainted within them.
6 Then they (G)cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
7 He led them by (H)a straight way
till they reached (I)a city to dwell in.
8 (J)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
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- Psalm 107:2 Or from the hand of the foe
Isaiah 42:16
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16 (A)And I will lead the blind
in a way that they do not know,
in paths that they have not known
I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
(B)the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I do,
and I do not forsake them.
Psalm 5:8
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8 (A)Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness
because of my enemies;
(B)make your way straight before me.
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