“I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.”
— WEB
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“I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.”
— WEB
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:”
— KJV
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.”
— ASV
prayer . . . supplications--literally, "intercessions . . . entreaties for mercy." Praying for blessings, and deprecating evils.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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