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Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.
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Jeremiah 29:10-13
For this is what the LORD says:“ When seventy years for Babylon are complete, I will attend to you and will confirm my promise concerning you to restore you to this place.For I know the plans I have for you”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
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James 5:16-18
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its fruit.
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Nehemiah 1:4-11
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.I said, LORD, the God of the heavens, the great and awe-inspiring God who keeps his gracious covenant with those who love him and keep his commands,let your eyes be open and your ears be attentive to hear your servant’s prayer that I now pray to you day and night for your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins we have committed against you. Both I and my father’s family have sinned.We have acted corruptly toward you and have not kept the commands, statutes, and ordinances you gave your servant Moses.Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses:“ If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.”They are your servants and your people. You redeemed them by your great power and strong hand.Please, Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to that of your servants who delight to revere your name. Give your servant success today, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man. At the time, I was the king’s cupbearer.
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Ezra 9:5
At the evening offering, I got up from my time of humiliation, with my tunic and robe torn. Then I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God.
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Ezra 10:6
Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
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Esther 4:16
“ Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.”
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Ezra 8:21
I proclaimed a fast by the Ahava River, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.
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Psalms 102:13-17
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her— the appointed time has come.For your servants take delight in its stones and favor its dust.Then the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory,for the LORD will rebuild Zion; he will appear in his glory.He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
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Daniel 6:10
When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upstairs room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
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Psalms 35:13
Yet when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, and my prayer was genuine.
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Jonah 3:6-9
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Then he issued a decree in Nineveh: By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing.Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.
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Psalms 69:10-11
I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them.
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Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of Armies called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.
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Acts 10:30
Cornelius replied,“ Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in dazzling clothing stood before me
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Ezekiel 36:37
“‘ This is what the Lord GOD says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.
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Esther 4:1-3
When Mordecai learned all that had occurred, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, went into the middle of the city, and cried loudly and bitterly.He went only as far as the King’s Gate, since the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering the King’s Gate.There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict reached. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Joel 2:12
Even now— this is the LORD’s declaration— turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
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Joel 1:13
Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
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Luke 2:37
and was a widow for eighty-four years. She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.
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Daniel 10:2-3
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.I didn’t eat any rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over.
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Nehemiah 9:1
On the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.
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James 4:8-10
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
