1 Kings 18:42

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.

Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.

The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.

Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath.

Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.

He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.

So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.

In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

“I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

“For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God,

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,

Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’ ”

He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.