2 Samuel 12:16

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2 Samuel 12:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

15 After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.

17 The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

18 On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”

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2 Samuel 12:22

David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

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Isaiah 26:16

O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

Joel 2:13

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Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

Esther 4:16

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I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

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On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

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For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.

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Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

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Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

Job 20:14

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.