Nehemiah 1:4
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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.
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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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Psalm 137:1
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How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song?
137 By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
Ezra 10:1
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The People Confess Their Sin
10 (A)While Ezra prayed and (B)made confession, weeping and (C)casting himself down (D)before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
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Psalm 102:13-14
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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.
Psalm 69:9-10
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9 For (A)zeal for your house has consumed me,
and (B)the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and humbled[a] my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
Footnotes
- Psalm 69:10 Hebrew lacks and humbled
Nehemiah 2:4
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4 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed (A)to the God of heaven.
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Romans 12:15
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15 (A)Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
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Zephaniah 3:18
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18 I will gather those of you who mourn (A)for the festival,
so that you will no longer suffer reproach.[a]
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 3:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Daniel 2:18
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18 (A)and told them to seek mercy from the (B)God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not (C)be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
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Ezra 9:3
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3 As soon as I heard this, I (A)tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and (B)sat appalled.
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Ezra 5:11-12
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11 And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, (A)which a great king of Israel built and (B)finished. 12 (C)But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he (D)gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.
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Jonah 1:9
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9 And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear (A)the Lord, the God of heaven, (B)who made the sea and the dry land.”
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1 Samuel 4:17-22
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17 He who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.” 18 As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward (A)from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
19 Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her. 20 And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, (B)“Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention. 21 And she named the child (C)Ichabod, saying, (D)“The glory has departed[a] from Israel!” because (E)the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, (F)for the ark of God has been captured.”
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- 1 Samuel 4:21 Or gone into exile; also verse 22
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