Nehemiah 1:4

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Summary

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

I sat down

Bible References

I sat down

And the messenger answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people also. And also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

And when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there gathered to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children, for the people wept with a great weeping.

For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me.

You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to pity her, yea, the set time, has come.

There we sat down by the rivers of Babylon; also, we wept when we remembered Zion.

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

I will gather the afflicted ones from the appointed place; they were from you, a lifting up of reproach over her.

Rejoice with rejoicing ones, and weep with weeping ones;