So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise
Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous m
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or da
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-mind
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a saf
At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out m
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he sta
This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will mult
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and pray
Cornelius answered: “Four days ago I was in my house praying at this, the ninth hour. Suddenly a man in radiant clothing
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust o
Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room o
When Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the m
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackclot
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.