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Daniel 6:10-11
When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.Then those officials who had gone to the king came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.
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Nehemiah 1:2-4
Hanani, who was one of my relatives, along with some of the men from Judah, came to me, and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped and had survived the exile, and about Jerusalem.They said to me,“ The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!”When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
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Psalms 84:10
Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.
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Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither completely away, and his right eye become completely blind!”
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Nehemiah 2:2-3
So the king said to me,“ Why do you appear to be depressed when you aren’t sick? What can this be other than sadness of heart?” This made me very fearful.I replied to the king,“ O king, live forever! Why would I not appear dejected when the city with the graves of my ancestors lies desolate and its gates destroyed by fire?”
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Psalms 122:5-9
Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper!May there be peace inside your defenses, and prosperity inside your fortresses!For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say,“ May there be peace in you!”For the sake of the temple of the LORD our God I will pray for you to prosper.
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Psalms 102:13-14
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. For it is time to have mercy on her, for the appointed time has come.Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.
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Jeremiah 51:50
You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the LORD in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 62:1
“ For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch.”
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Isaiah 62:6-7
I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the LORD, don’t be silent!Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
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Psalms 84:1-2
How lovely is the place where you live, O LORD WHO RULES OVER ALL!I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.
