by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-mind
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come to
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the brideg
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD,
On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captai
Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them,
He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust o
The land will mourn, each clan on its own: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nath
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling.
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain
You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give y
They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clea
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these