Baruch 9:3

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Et gloria Domini Israël assumpta est de cherub, quæ erat super eum ad limen domus : et vocavit virum qui indutus erat lineis, et atramentarium scriptoris habebat in lumbis suis,

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et posui faciem meam ad Dominum Deum meum rogare et deprecari in jejuniis, sacco, et cinere.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
et posui faciem meam ad Dominum Deum meum, ut quaererem rogationem et deprecationem in ieiuniis, sacco et cinere.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I set: Daniel 6:10, Nehemiah 1:4-11, Psalms 102:13-17, Jeremiah 29:10-13, Jeremiah 33:3, Ezekiel 36:37, James 5:16-18

with: Daniel 10:2, Daniel 10:3, Ezra 8:21, Ezra 9:5, Ezra 10:6, Nehemiah 1:4, Nehemiah 9:1, Esther 4:1-3, Esther 4:16, Psalms 35:13, Psalms 69:10, Psalms 69:11, Isaiah 22:12, Joel 1:13, Joel 2:12, Jonah 3:6-9, Luke 2:37, Acts 10:30, James 4:8-10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:21 - confess over Leviticus 26:40 - confess 1 Samuel 7:6 - fasted 1 Kings 8:33 - pray 1 Kings 18:42 - he cast himself 2 Kings 19:15 - prayed 1 Chronicles 22:19 - set your 2 Chronicles 6:24 - pray 2 Chronicles 6:38 - pray toward 2 Chronicles 20:3 - proclaimed Ezra 8:23 - we fasted Ezra 10:1 - when Ezra Nehemiah 9:2 - confessed Esther 4:3 - many lay in sackcloth and ashes Job 9:15 - I would Job 42:6 - repent Psalms 27:4 - seek Psalms 102:17 - He will Psalms 137:1 - we wept Ecclesiastes 7:3 - is better Isaiah 37:15 - General Isaiah 45:11 - Ask Isaiah 58:5 - it such Jeremiah 29:12 - General Jeremiah 51:50 - remember Ezekiel 6:9 - remember Daniel 10:12 - from Matthew 6:16 - when Matthew 17:21 - but Mark 9:29 - fasting Luke 10:13 - repented Luke 11:9 - seek Acts 13:2 - fasted 1 Peter 1:10 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications,.... He set apart some time on purpose for this service, distinct from his usual stated times of prayer, as well as from his civil business and employment; and he not only set his face toward Jerusalem, as he used to do, Daniel 6:10, the more to affect his mind with the desolations the city and temple lay in; but towards the Lord God, the sovereign Lord of all, who does according to his will in heaven and in earth, the Governor of the universe, the one true God, Father, Son, and Spirit: and this denotes the intenseness of his spirit in prayer; the fixedness of his heart; the ardour of his mind; the fervency of his soul; his holy confidence in God; the freedom and boldness he used in prayer, and his constancy and continuance in it; which is a principal means, and a proper manner of seeking God. The Septuagint version, agreeably to the Hebrew text d, renders it, "to seek prayer and supplications"; such as were suitable and pertinent to the present case; most beneficial and interesting to him and his people, and most acceptable to the Lord:

with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes; as was usual on extraordinary occasions, in times of public mourning; and this he did, to show his sense of the divine Being, and of his own unworthiness to ask or receive anything of him; his great humiliation for the sins of the people; and to distinguish this prayer of his from ordinary ones, and to affect his own heart in it, with the sad condition his nation, city, and temple were in; and therefore abstained from food for a time, put sackcloth on his loins, and ashes on his head, or sat in them.

d לבקש תפלה ותחנונים του εκζητησαι προσευχην και δεησεις, Sept; "ad quaerendum orationem et deprecationes", Montanus; "ad quaerendam orationem et supplicationem", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I set my face unto the Lord God - Probably the meaning is, that he turned his face toward Jerusalem, the place where God had dwelt; the place of his holy abode on earth. See the notes at Daniel 6:10. The language, however, would not be inappropriate to denote prayer without such a supposition. We turn to one whom we address, and so prayer may be described by “setting the face toward God.” The essential idea here is, that he engaged in a set and formal prayer; he engaged in earnest devotion. He evidently set apart a time for this, for he prepared himself by fasting, and by putting on sackcloth and ashes.

To seek by prayer and supplications - To seek his favor; to pray that he would accomplish his purposes. The words “prayer and supplications,” which are often found united, would seem to denote “earnest” prayer, or prayer when mercy was implored - the notion of “mercy” or “favor” implored entering into the meaning of the Hebrew word rendered “supplications.”

With fasting - In view of the desolations of the city and temple; the calamities that had come upon the people; their sins, etc.; and in order also that the mind might be prepared for earnest and fervent prayer. The occasion was one of great importance, and it was proper that the mind should be prepared for it by fasting. It was the purpose of Daniel to humble himself before God, and to recal the sins of the nation for which they now suffered, and fasting was an appropriate means of doing that.

And sackcloth - Sackcloth was a coarse kind of cloth, usually made of hair, and employed for the purpose of making sacks, bags, etc. As it was dark, and coarse, and rough, it was regarded as a proper badge of mourning and humiliation, and was worn as such usually by passing or girding it around the loins. See the notes at Isaiah 3:24; Job 16:15.

And ashes - It was customary to cast ashes on the head in a time of great grief and sorrow. The principles on which this was done seem to have been,

(a) that the external appearance should correspond with the state of the mind and the heart, and

(b) that such external circumstances would have a tendency to produce a state of heart corresponding to them - or would produce true humiliation and repentance for sin.

Compare the notes at Job 2:8. The practical truth taught in this verse, in connection with the preceding, is, that the fact that a thing is certainly predicted, and that God means to accomplish it, is an encouragement to prayer, and will lead to prayer. We could have no encouragement to pray except in the purposes and promises of God, for we have no power ourselves to accomplish the things for which we pray, and all must depend on his will. When that will is known it is the very thing to encourage us in our approaches to him, and is all the assurance that we need to induce us to pray.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 9:3. I set my face - to seek by prayer — He found that the time of the promised deliverance could not be at any great distance; and as he saw nothing that indicated a speedy termination of their oppressive captivity, he was very much afflicted, and earnestly besought God to put a speedy end to it; and how earnestly he seeks, his own words show. He prayed, he supplicated, he fasted, he put sackcloth upon his body, and he put ashes upon his head. He uses that kind of prayer prescribed by Solomon in his prayer at the dedication of the temple. See 1 Kings 8:47-48.