So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
NMVAnd I set my face unto the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things], the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
OJBAnd I set my face unto Adonoi HaElohim, to plead by tefillah and tachanunim (supplications), with a tzom, and sackcloth, and ashes;
T4TAfter I read that, I pleaded to Yahweh my God to help us, praying and ◄fasting/abstaining from eating food►. While doing that, I was wearing rough cloth and sitting in ashes to show that I was very sad about what was going to happen to us.