Daniel 9:3 Cross References - NSB

³ I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

²¹ Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the Ahava River, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a safe journey for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

⁵ I humbled myself before God at the evening offering. I got up, with signs of grief, and fell on my knees with my hands stretched out to Jehovah my God,

⁶ Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib. When he arrived there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

⁴ After I heard these words I sat down on the ground and cried for days. I ate no food and offered prayer to the God of heaven. ⁵ I said: »O Jehovah (YHWH), the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be respected, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws: ⁶ »Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open. Please give ear to the prayer of your servant. At this time, day and night I pray for the children of Israel, your servants. I put before you the sins of the children of Israel that we have done against you: truly, my father’s people and I are sinners. ⁷ »We have done great wrong against you. We have not obeyed the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses. ⁸ »Keep in mind, O Jehovah, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying: ‘If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples: ⁹ »If you come back to me and obey my orders, even if you have been forced out and are living in the farthest horizons, I will gather you from there, and bring you to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my name.’ ¹⁰ »These are your servants and your people, whom you have made yours by your great power and by your strong hand. ¹¹ »O Jehovah, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant. Of the prayers of all your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Jehovah, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man.« Now I was the king's wine-servant.

¹ Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies.

¹ When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes in anguish. Then he dressed in sackcloth, covered his head with ashes, and walked through the city, wailing loudly and bitterly, ² until he came to the entrance of the palace. He did not go in because no one wearing sackcloth was allowed inside. ³ Throughout all the provinces, wherever the king's proclamation was made known, there was loud mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, wailed, and most of them put on sackcloth and lay in ashes.

¹⁶ »Go assemble all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me. Take no food or drink night or day for three days. My women and I will do the same. Then I will go in to the king even though it is against the law. If death is to be my fate, then let it come.«

¹³ But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth. I humbled myself with fasting. My prayer returned unanswered.

¹⁰ When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. ¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

¹³ You will arise and have compassion on Zion. It is time to be gracious to her for the appointed time has come. ¹⁴ Your servants find pleasure in her stones and feel pity for her dust. ¹⁵ So the nations will respect the name of Jehovah and all the kings of the earth will honor you. ¹⁶ For Jehovah has built up Zion. He has appeared in His glory. ¹⁷ He has respected the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.

¹² In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

¹⁰ »This is what Jehovah says: ‘When Babylon's seventy years are over I will come to you. I will keep my promise to you and bring you back to this place. ¹¹ ‘I know the plans (intentions) (thoughts) that I have for you, says Jehovah. They are plans (intentions) for peace and not disaster. They are intentions to give you a future filled with hope. ¹² ‘Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me and I will hear you. ¹³ ‘When you look for me, you will find me. When you wholeheartedly seek me,

³ ‘Call to me and I will answer you. I will tell you grand and impressive things, things you do not know.’«

³⁷ »This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will also let the people of Israel ask me to make them as numerous as sheep.

¹⁰ Daniel knew that the decree was signed. He went into his house. His windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, like he did before.

² In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks. ³ I ate no pleasant bread; neither flesh nor wine entered my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were completed.

¹³ »Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth you ministers of my God! The meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

¹² »Even now,« said Jehovah, »turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!

⁶ The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes. ⁷ He made proclamation and published it in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: »Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water. ⁸ »Let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast. Let them sincerely call on God! Let them turn away each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. ⁹ »Who knows whether God will turn back and change his mind, and turn away from his fierce anger that we will not perish?«

³⁷ She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.

³⁰ Cornelius replied, »Four days ago I was praying at this hour. It was the ninth hour and I prayed in my house. A man dressed in bright clothing stood before me.

⁸ Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic). ⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the presence of God, and he will exalt you.

¹⁶ Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man helps much. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. ¹⁸ He prayed again; and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.