| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development - Housing - 1985 - 918 pages
...and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that...days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven. Chapter 2, verse 17: Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development - Housing - 1985 - 918 pages
...and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that...days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven. Chapter 2, verse 17: Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth... | |
| Frank Damazio - Religion - 1988 - 364 pages
...and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.' And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that...days and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven, and said, 7 beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and... | |
| Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that...days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and... | |
| Lee Roberson - Sermons, American - 2000 - 212 pages
...prayer that he saw the job done. Now, may we notice a few things about Nehemiah. I. PRAYER AND TROUBLE "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that...certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven."—Neh. 1:4. to the place of prayer and waited upon God. Nehemiah had heard of the destitution... | |
| Religion - 1994 - 1208 pages
...reproach, [I the wall of Jerusalem || is broken down, and ||the gates thereof II are burned with fire. 4 And it came to pass <when I heard these words> that I sat down and wept, and I mourned certain days, — and continued fasting and praying, before the God of the heavens ; 5 and... | |
| William Graham Scroggie - 1994 - 1460 pages
...condition of his brethren in Judaea produced in him sorrowful consternation. 'When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven' (i. 4), and at the end of four months Artaxerxes observes the sadness of his countenance (ii. 2). This... | |
| 1905 - 398 pages
...reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that...I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven, 5. And said I beseech thee, O Jehovah, the God of heaven.... | |
| Michael D. Goulder - Religion - 1998 - 354 pages
...reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, And the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven, 5and said, I beseech thee, O LORD, the God of heaven,... | |
| Yoram Hazony - Bible - 2000 - 352 pages
...Nehemia decides to try to use his influence, although it may mean forfeiting his position or his life: "It came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and I mourned for days, and I fasted and prayed before God in heaven: ... Prosper your servant this day,... | |
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