Jeremiah 29:12
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12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you.
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Matthew 7:7-8
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Ask, and It Will Be Given
7 (A)“Ask, (B)and it will be given to you; (C)seek, and you will find; (D)knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
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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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Psalm 50:15
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Psalm 145:19
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Psalm 10:17
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17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will (A)strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
Isaiah 65:24
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Zechariah 13:9
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9 And (A)I will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
(B)They will call upon my name,
and (C)I will answer them.
(D)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Jeremiah 31:9
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Daniel 9:3-19
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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. 4 I prayed to the Lord my God and (B)made confession, saying, (C)“O Lord, the (D)great and awesome God, who (E)keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5 (F)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly (G)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 (H)We have not listened to (I)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to (J)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, (K)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (L)those who are near and (M)those who are far away, in (N)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (O)the treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (P)we have sinned against you. 9 (Q)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 (R)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by (S)his servants the prophets. 11 (T)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, (U)refusing to obey your voice. (V)And the curse and oath (W)that are written in the Law of (X)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because (Y)we have sinned against him. 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against (Z)our rulers who ruled us,[a] by (AA)bringing upon us a great calamity. (AB)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 13 (AC)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, (AD)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. 14 (AE)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, (AF)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and (AG)we have not obeyed his voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt (AH)with a mighty hand, and (AI)have made a name for yourself, as at this day, (AJ)we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 “O Lord, (AK)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, (AL)your holy hill, (AM)because for our sins, and for (AN)the iniquities of our fathers, (AO)Jerusalem and your people have become (AP)a byword among all who are around us. 17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,[b] (AQ)make your face to shine upon (AR)your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 (AS)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see (AT)our desolations, and (AU)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. (AV)Delay not, (AW)for your own sake, O my God, because (AX)your city and (AY)your people are called by your name.”
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- Daniel 9:12 Or our judges who judged us
- Daniel 9:17 Hebrew for the Lord's sake
Isaiah 30:19
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19 For a people shall dwell (A)in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.
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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 102:16-17
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16 For the Lord (A)builds up Zion;
he (B)appears in his glory;
17 he (C)regards the prayer of the destitute
and does not despise their prayer.
Nehemiah 2:4-20
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4 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed (A)to the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it.” 6 And the king said to me ((B)the queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me (C)when I had given him a time. 7 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me (D)to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah, 8 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of (E)the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, (F)for the good hand of my God was upon me.
Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem's Walls
9 Then I came to (G)the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. 10 But when (H)Sanballat the Horonite and (I)Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.
11 (J)So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. 12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode. 13 I went out by night by (K)the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to (L)the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem (M)that were broken down (N)and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. 14 Then I went on to (O)the Fountain Gate and to (P)the King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass. 15 Then I went up in the night (Q)by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned. 16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.
17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, (R)how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer (S)suffer derision.” 18 And I told them (T)of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” (U)So they strengthened their hands for the good work. 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and (V)Geshem the Arab heard of it, (W)they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? (X)Are you rebelling against the king?” 20 Then I replied to them, (Y)“The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim[a] in Jerusalem.”
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- Nehemiah 2:20 Or memorial
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