Thematic Bible: Pray for those under

Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek [him] [by] prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and [in] sackcloth and ashes. Verse ConceptsFasting, Practice OfFasting, Nature OfFasting, Examples OfAshesAsceticism, TypesPrayer, Practicalities OfSackcloth And AshesFasting, Accompanied ByAshes Of HumiliationFastingFasting And Prayersupplicationpetition

And Moses {implored Yahweh} his God, and he said, "Why, Yahweh, should {your anger blaze} against your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? Why should [the] Egyptians {say}, 'With evil [intent] he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from {your fierce anger} and relent concerning the disaster for your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, and you told them, 'I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit [it] forever.'"

Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died down. Verse ConceptsQuenchingExtinguishingPraying For SinnersGod's Intervention