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Nehemiah 1:4

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1:4When I heard these things I sat down abruptly,10 crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

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  1. 10 Heb “sat down.” Context suggests that this was a rather sudden action, resulting from the emotional shock of the unpleasant news, so “abruptly” has been supplied in the present translation.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

NLTNew Living Translation

When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

KJV 1900King James Version

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,