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Daniel 9:3

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¶ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
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  1. Jeremiah 29:10–13Rank 1 from verse 3
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    10¶ For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

    11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

    12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

    13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

  2. Jeremiah 33:3Rank 2 from verse 3
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    3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

  3. James 5:16–18Rank 3 from verse 3
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    16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

    17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

    18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

  4. Nehemiah 1:4–11Rank 4 from verse 3
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    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,

    5And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

    6Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.

    7We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

    8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

    9But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

    10Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.

    11O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.

  5. Esther 4:16Rank 5 from verse 3
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    16Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

  6. Ezra 10:6Rank 6 from verse 3
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    6¶ Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

  7. Ezra 8:21Rank 7 from verse 3
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    21¶ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

  8. Ezra 9:5Rank 8 from verse 3
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    5¶ And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God,

  9. James 4:8–10Rank 9 from verse 3
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    8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

    9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

    10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

  10. Acts 10:30Rank 10 from verse 3
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    30And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

  11. Ezekiel 36:37Rank 11 from verse 3
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    37Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

  12. Joel 1:13Rank 12 from verse 3
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    13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

  13. Joel 2:12Rank 13 from verse 3
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    12¶ Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

  14. Luke 2:37Rank 14 from verse 3
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    37And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

  15. Psalms 102:13–17Rank 15 from verse 3
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    13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

    14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

    15So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

    16When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

    17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

  16. Psalms 35:13Rank 16 from verse 3
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    13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

  17. Psalms 69:10–11Rank 17 from verse 3
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    10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

    11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

  18. Daniel 6:10Rank 18 from verse 3
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    10¶ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

  19. Nehemiah 9:1Rank 19 from verse 3
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    1NOW in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

  20. Esther 4:1–3Rank 20 from verse 3
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    1WHEN Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

    2And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

    3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

  21. Jonah 3:6–9Rank 21 from verse 3
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    6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

    7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

    8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

    9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

  22. Daniel 10:2–3Rank 22 from verse 3
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    2In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

    3I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

  23. Isaiah 22:12Rank 23 from verse 3
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    12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

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Daniel 9:3

COMBINED MEANING

set

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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

face

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The front of the head and its countenance or expression; the front, surface, outward appearance, presence, view, or personally known identity of a person, place, or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Lord

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1. A title of God or Jesus Christ acknowledging authority and rule. 2. A respectful title or address for one in authority.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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fasting

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of fast, meaning to abstain from food for a time.

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ashes

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Sense 1: The powdery residue left after burning. Sense 2: A sign of mourning, humiliation, or ruin.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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9:2In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

9:3¶ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

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9:4And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

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