When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
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- KJV And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
- BSB When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
- NKJV So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
- NASB Now when I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
- NLT When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven.
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- Dan 9:3I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- Ps 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
- Ezra 10:1Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
- Ps 69:9–10For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
- Ps 102:13–14You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
- Neh 2:4Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
- Zeph 3:18I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
- Rom 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
- Dan 2:18that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- Ezra 9:3When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
- Ezra 5:11–12Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
- Jonah 1:9He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
- 1 Sam 4:17–22He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
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