Nehemiah 1:4

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

Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion.

1 Samuel 4:17-22

Then the one who brought the news replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.”

Ezra 5:11-12

Thus they answered us, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

Ezra 9:3

When I heard about this matter, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled some of the hair from my head and my beard, and sat down appalled.

Psalm 69:9-10

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

Psalm 102:13-14

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.

Daniel 2:18

so that they might request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 9:3

So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

Jonah 1:9

He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.”

Zephaniah 3:18

“I will gather those who grieve about the appointed feasts—
They came from you, O Zion;
The reproach of exile is a burden on them.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

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Summary

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,

Bible References

I sat down

1 Samuel 4:17
Then the one who brought the news replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.”
Ezra 10:1
Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly.
Psalm 69:9
For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
Psalm 102:13
You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.
Psalm 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion.
Daniel 9:3
So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
Zephaniah 3:18
“I will gather those who grieve about the appointed feasts—
They came from you, O Zion;
The reproach of exile is a burden on them.
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.