Ezra 8:21 Cross References - JuliaSmith

²¹ And I shall call a fast there, upon the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

²⁹ And it was to you for a law forever: in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month ye shall humble your souls, and all work ye shall not do, the native and the stranger sojourning in the midst of you.

³¹ And this is a Sabbath of Sabbath to you, and ye humbled your souls, a law forever.

²⁹ For every soul which shall not be humbled in, that same day, and it was cut off from its people.

³ And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt?

³¹ And your little ones which ye said shall be for a prey, and I brought them in, and they shall know the land which ye rejected

²⁶ And all the sons of Israel and all the people will go up, and they will come to the house of God, and they will weep, and they will sit there before Jehovah, and they will fast in that day till the evening, and they will bring up burnt-offerings and peace before Jehovah.

⁶ And they will gather together to Mizpeh, and draw water and pour out before Jehovah; and they will fast in that day and say there, We sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel will judge the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.

³ And Jehoshaphat will fear, and he will give his face to seek to Jehovah, and he will call a fast for all Judah.

¹⁵ And I shall gather them together to the river going to Ahava, and there we shall encamp three days: and I shall look upon the people and upon the priests, and from the sons of Levi I found not these.

³¹ And we removed from the river Ahava in the twelfth to the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the band of our God was upon us and he will deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and of him lying in wait upon the way.

⁸ O Jehovah, guide me into thy justice, for sake of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

² Out of the mouth of children and sucklings thou hast founded strength on account of thine enemies, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.

² They being redeemed of Jehovah shall say, Which he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ³ And he gathered them from the lands, from the sunrisings and from the west, from the north and from the sea. ⁴ They will wander in the desert in a waste; the way of a city of dwelling they found not ⁵ Hungering, also thirsting, their soul will faint in them. ⁶ And they will cry to Jehovah in straits to them, and he will deliver them from their distresses. ⁷ And he will cause them to tread in a straight way, to go to a city of dwelling. ⁸ They shall confess to Jehovah his mercy, and his wonders to the sons of man.

⁸ Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee I trusted: cause me to know the way that I shall go; for to thee I lifted up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah: to thee I covered myself. ¹⁰ Teach me to do thine acceptance, for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; thou wilt guide me into a land of uprightness.

⁶ In all thy ways know him, and he will make straight thy paths.

²¹ And thine ears shall hear the word from after thee, saying, This the way, go ye in it when ye shall turn to the right, and when ye shall turn to the left

⁸ And a highway was there, and a way, and it shall be called to it, A way of holiness; the unclean one shall not pass through it; and it is for them; he going the way, and the foolish shall not err.

¹⁶ I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not

¹⁰ They shall not hunger and they shall not thirst, and the heat shall not strike them, and the sun: for he pitying them shall lead them, and to fountains of water he shall conduct them.

³ For what did we fast, and thou sawest not? we humbled our soul and thou wilt not know? Behold, in the day of your fasting ye will find desire, and ye will exact all your labors.

⁵ Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah.

²³ I knew, O Jehovah, that not to man his way; not to man to go and set right his step.

⁸ Behold me bringing them from the land of the north, and I gathered them from the thighs of the earth, with them the blind and the lame, her being Pregnant, and her bringing forth together: a great convocation shall turn back hither. ⁹ In weeping will they come, and I will lead them in mercies; I will cause them to go to the streams of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it: for I was to Israel for a father, and Ephraim he is my first-born.

⁴ In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God. ⁵ To Zion shall they ask the way, thither their faces: Come ye, and we will join ourselves to Jehovah an eternal covenant; it shall not be forgotten.

¹⁴ Consecrate a fast., call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

¹² And also now, says Jehovah, Turn back even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with wailing. ¹³ And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn back to Jehovah your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, slow of anger and of much kindness, and lamenting on account of the evil. ¹⁴ Who shall know he will turn back, and lamenting and leaving a blessing after him, a gift and a libation to Jehovah your God? ¹⁵ Clang ye the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast, call a restraining. ¹⁶ Gather the people, consecrate the convocation, assemble the old men, gather the children and those sucking the breasts: the bridegroom shall come forth from his chamber and the bride from her nuptial couch. ¹⁷ Between the porch and to the altar the priests serving Jehovah shall weep, and they shall say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and thou wilt not give thine inheritance to reproach for the nations to rule over them: wherefore shall they say among the peoples, Where is their God? ¹⁸ And Jehovah will be jealous for his land, and he will pity. for his people.

⁵ And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.

¹³ And they brought young children to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples rebuked those bringing. ¹⁴ And Jesus, having seen, felt pain, and said to them, Permit children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. ¹⁵ Truly I say to you, Whoever should not receive the kingdom of God as a young child, should not come into it. ¹⁶ And having taken them up in his arms, having put the hands upon them, he praised them.

³⁹ For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call.