THEOSISNehemiah 1:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And when I had heard these words, I sat down, and wept, and mourned for many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the God of heaven.
וַיְהִ֞י כְּשָׁמְעִ֣י ׀ אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה יָשַׁ֙בְתִּי֙ וָֽאֶבְכֶּ֔ה וָאֶתְאַבְּלָ֖ה יָמִ֑ים וָֽאֱהִ֥י צָם֙ וּמִתְפַּלֵּ֔ל לִפְנֵ֖י אֱלֹהֵ֥י הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Dan 9:3And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
- Ps 137 (136):1
- Ezra 10:1Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people wept with much lamentation.
- Ps 102 (101):13
- Ps 102 (101):14
- Neh 2:4Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I prayed to the God of heaven,
- Ps 69 (68):9
- Ps 69 (68):10