Nehemiah 1:4

WEB

⁴When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God ^[+] of heaven,

KJV

⁴¶ 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,

BSB

⁴When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

FBV

⁴When I heard the news, I sat down, weeping and mourning for days, fasting and praying to the God of heaven.

Extra References

Daniel 9:3

³I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Psalms 137:1

¹By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Ezra 10:1

¹Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

Psalms 102:13-14

¹³You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come. ¹⁴For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

Nehemiah 2:4

⁴Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Zephaniah 3:18

¹⁸I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.

Psalms 69:9-10

⁹For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. ¹⁰When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

Daniel 2:18

¹⁸that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Romans 12:15

¹⁵Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Jonah 1:9

⁹He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God ^[+] of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”