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 he who is bearing tidings answereth and saith, 'Israel hath fled before the Philistines, and also a great slaughter hath been among the people, and also thy two sons have died -- Hophni and Phinehas -- and the ark of God hath been captured.'

And at Ezra's praying, and at his making confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there have been gathered unto him out of Israel an assembly very great -- men and women and children -- for the people have wept, multiplying weeping.

For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me.

Thou -- Thou risest -- Thou pitiest Zion, For the time to favour her, For the appointed time hath come.

By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

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

Mine afflicted from the appointed place I have gathered, from thee they have been, Bearing for her sake reproach.

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,