Falling

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon.

I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.