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Dan. 9:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andp I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

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Neh. 1:4• ⁴And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of the heavens, (Neh. 1:4)

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Jer. 29:10‑13• ¹⁰For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in bringing you back to this place.
¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope.
¹²And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you;
¹³and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for me with all your heart, (Jer. 29:10‑13)

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Dan. 6:10• ¹⁰And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and, his windows being open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. (Dan. 6:10)

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Neh. 1:4‑11• ⁴And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of the heavens,
⁵and said, I beseech thee, Jehovah, God of the heavens, the great and terrible *God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and keep his commandments.
⁶Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
⁷We have acted very perversely against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances that thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
⁸Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the peoples;
⁹but if ye return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
¹⁰And they are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power and by thy strong hand.
¹¹O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who delight to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's cupbearer. (Neh. 1:4‑11)

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Psa. 102:13‑17• ¹³*Thou* wilt rise up, thou wilt have mercy upon Zion: for it is the time to be gracious to her, for the set time is come.
¹⁴For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.
¹⁵And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
¹⁶When Jehovah shall build up Zion, he will appear in his glory.
¹⁷He will regard the prayer of the destitute one, and not despise their prayer. (Psa. 102:13‑17)

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Jer. 29:10‑13• ¹⁰For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in bringing you back to this place.
¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope.
¹²And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you;
¹³and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for me with all your heart, (Jer. 29:10‑13)

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Jer. 33:3• ³Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will shew thee great and hidden things, which thou knowest not. (Jer. 33:3)

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Ezek. 36:37• ³⁷Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it unto them; I will increase them with men like a flock. (Ezek. 36:37)

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James 5:16‑18• ¹⁶Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The fervent supplication of the righteous man has much power.
¹⁷Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;
¹⁸and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to spring forth. (James 5:16‑18)

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Dan. 10:2‑3• ²In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks:
³I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three full weeks were fulfilled. (Dan. 10:2‑3)

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Ezra 8:21• ²¹And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. (Ezra 8:21)

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Ezra 9:5• ⁵And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation; and with my mantle and my garment rent, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God, (Ezra 9:5)

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Ezra 10:6• ⁶And Ezra arose from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and when he came thither, he ate no bread and drank no water; for he mourned because of the unfaithfulness of them that had been carried away. (Ezra 10:6)

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Neh. 1:4• ⁴And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of the heavens, (Neh. 1:4)

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Neh. 9:1• ¹And on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. (Neh. 9:1)

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Esther 4:1‑3,16• ¹And when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his garments, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry,
²and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
³And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing: many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
¹⁶Go, gather together all the Jews that are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise, and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish. (Esther 4:1‑3,16)

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Psa. 35:13• ¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom: (Psa. 35:13)

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Psa. 69:10‑11• ¹⁰And I wept, my soul was fasting: that also was to my reproach;--
¹¹And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them. (Psa. 69:10‑11)

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Isa. 22:12• ¹²And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; (Isa. 22:12)

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Joel 1:13• ¹³Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God. (Joel 1:13)

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Joel 2:12• ¹²Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning; (Joel 2:12)

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Jonah 3:6‑9• ⁶And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
⁷And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;
⁸and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
⁹Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? (Jonah 3:6‑9)

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Luke 2:37• ³⁷and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers; (Luke 2:37)

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Acts 10:30• ³⁰And Cornelius said, Four days ago I had been fasting unto this hour, and the ninth I was praying in my house, and lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing, (Acts 10:30)

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James 4:8‑10• ⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
⁹Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you. (James 4:8‑10)

• {Daniel} might truly have been the mouthpiece of his fellow-captives in the well-known psalm, the authorship of which is not revealed...Psalm 137:5-6. (“Daniel 9” by E. Dennett)

• The effect of this discovery on Daniel was, in his unquenchable love for his people, to lead him to identify himself with their state, to confess their sins, and to intercede for their forgiveness and restoration. ; for he well knew that there must first be a work wrought in their souls to qualify them for returning to their own land and to their city. (“Daniel 9” by E. Dennett)

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And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;