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Ezra 8:21

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I proclaimed: Judges 20:26; 1 Samuel 7:6; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Joel 1:14, Joel 2:12-18; Jonah 3:5

afflict ourselves: Leviticus 16:29, Leviticus 16:31, Leviticus 23:29; Isaiah 58:3, Isaiah 58:5; Jeremiah 31:8-9, Jeremiah 50:4-5

to seek: Psalms 5:8, Psalms 107:2-8, Psalms 143:8-10; Proverbs 3:6; Isaiah 30:21, Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 42:16, Isaiah 49:10; Jeremiah 10:23

for our little ones: Numbers 14:3, Numbers 14:31; Psalms 8:2; Mark 10:13-16; Acts 2:39

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