Daniel 9:3 Cross References - Thomson

³ Therefore I turned my face to the Lord my God, to seek a prayer and supplication by fasting and sackcloth.

²¹ Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Avue, that we might humble ourselves in the presence of our God, and inquire of him the straight road for us, and our children, and all our substance;

⁵ And at the evening sacrifice I arose from my humiliation; having rent my garments, I rose up, and fell upon my knees, and spreading forth my hands to the Lord God,

⁶ Esdras went from the house of God to the treasury office of Joanan, son of Elisab. Though he went there, he neither ate bread nor drank water, for he mourned for the transgression of the captivity.

⁴ Upon hearing this report, I sat down and wept and mourned some days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven, ⁵ and I said, I beseech thee, Lord, God of heaven, the Mighty, the Great and the Awful, who keepest thy covenant and thy mercy with them who love thee and keep thy commandments, ⁶ let thine ear, I beseech thee, be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayst hear the prayer of thy servant which I now make before thee day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and plead for their sins which we have committed against thee. Both I and my father's house have sinned against thee. ⁷ We have broken covenant with thee, and have not kept the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou gavest in charge to thy servant Moses. ⁸ Remember, I beseech thee, the word which thou didst give in charge to Moses thy servant, saying, When you break covenant with me, and I scatter you among the nations; ⁹ if you then return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your dispersion may be to the farthest part of heaven, thence I will gather them and bring them to the place which I have chosen for my name to dwell there. ¹⁰ Now they are thy servants and thy people, whom thon hast redeemed with thy great power, and with thy strong hand. ¹¹ Turn not away, I beseech thee, Lord. But let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy children, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I beseech thee, thy servant this day, and grant him favour in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's butler,

¹ And on the twenty fourth day of the same month, the children of Israel were assembled, fasting, and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads,

¹ Now when Mordecai knew what was done, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and strewed himself with ashes, and running through the street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, A nation is to be cut off, which hath committed no fault. ² But when he came to the king's gate, he stopped; for it was not lawful for him to enter the court in sackcloth and ashes. ³ And in every country where the writings were published there was a cry with lamentation and great grief among the Jews, and they put on sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁶ Go and assemble the Jews who are at Susoi and fast for me. You must neither eat nor drink for three days; night nor day; and as for me, I and my maids will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king contrary to law, though perhaps I must die.

¹³ As for me, while they were raising troubles against me I cloathed myself with sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting. Though my prayer is to return into mine own bosom,

¹⁰ When I bowed down my soul with fasting; it furnished occasion for reproaching me. ¹¹ When I clothed myself with sackcloth, I became to them a proverb;

¹³ Thou wilt arise and have mercy on Sion: for the time to favour her; the set time is come. ¹⁴ Because thy servants had an affection for the stones thereof; therefore they will commiserate her rubbish. ¹⁵ And the nations shall fear thy name, Lord; and all the kings of the earth, thy glory. ¹⁶ For the Lord will rebuild Sion and appear in his glory. ¹⁷ He hath regarded the prayer of the lowly, and hath not despised their supplication.

¹² Though the Lord of hosts, on that day, called for mourning, and lamentation, and for shaving of hair and girding with sackcloth,

¹⁰ For thus said the Lord, When seventy years shall be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and establish my words for you by bringing back your people to this place. ¹¹ When I plan a purpose of peace and not evils against you, to grant you this,

¹³ then pray to me and I will hearken to you:

³ Cry to me and I will answer thee and shew thee great and marvellous things which thou hast not known.

³⁷ Thus saith Adonai the Lord, Still that they may do this, the house of Israel must seek me;

¹⁰ Now when Daniel knew that the decree was passed, he went home and the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem were opened for him, and three times a day, kneeling down on his knees, he prayed and gave thanks before his God as he had done heretofore.

² In those days, I Daniel, had been mourning three weeks. ³ I had not eaten palatable bread, nor had flesh or wine entered my mouth, neither had I anointed myself to the full end of three weeks.

¹³ gird yourselves, ye priests, and lament bitterly: sing the song of Woe, ye who minister at the altar; go in and sleep in sackcloth, ye ministers of God. Because sacrifice and libation are withheld from the house of your God.

¹² Now therefore saith the Lord your God, turn to me with your whole heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.

⁶ When the word reached the king of Ninive, he arose from his throne and stripped off his robes and clothed himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. ⁷ And proclamation was made and orders issued in Ninive from the king and from his nobles, saying, With regard to men and beasts, including herds and flocks, Let them not taste any thing; let them neither feed nor drink water. ⁸ So both men and beasts were covered with sackcloth; and there was an incessant cry to God; and every one turned from his evil way, and from the wickedness of their hands, saying, ⁹ "Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish.

³⁷ she was now a widow, about eighty four years old, who departed not from the temple, performing religious service, with fasting and prayers, night and day.

³⁰ Thereupon Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting till this hour, and at the ninth hour praying in my house. And lo! a man stood before me in splendid attire,

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. ⁹ Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into grief; and your joy into con fusion of face. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will exalt you. Speak not, brethren, against one another. He who speaketh against a brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against law, and judgeth law. Now if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of law, but a judge.

¹⁶ Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man under the divine impulse is very powerful. ¹⁷ Elias was a man frail and mortal like ourselves. In one prayer he prayed that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land during three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the land bloomed with its productions.