Ezra 9:4-5
4Then all who atrembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat bappalled until the evening sacrifice. 5And at the cevening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment dand my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees eand spread out my hands to the Lord my God,Nehemiah 1:4
Nehemiah’s Prayer
4As soon as I heard these words I fsat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the gGod of heaven.Psalms 42:9
9I say to God, hmy rock:“Why have you forgotten me?
iWhy do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Psalms 43:2
2For you are jthe God in whom I take refuge;why have you krejected me?
Why do I lgo about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 137:1-5
How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?
1 By the waters of Babylon,there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2On the willows ▼
▼Or poplars
therewe hung up our lyres.
3For there our captors
required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 nHow shall we sing the Lord’s song
in a foreign land?
5If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
olet my right hand forget its skill!
Isaiah 66:10
10 p“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,all you who love her;
rejoice with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her;
Jeremiah 9:1
1 ▼▼Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
rOh that my head were waters,and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of sthe daughter of my people!
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