← Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek a right way for us, and our little ones, and all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him; but his power and wrath is against them that forsake him. So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us. Ezra 8:21-23

← For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9

← Know therefore that the Lord thy God, his is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And he repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face…Wherefore it will come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee… Thou shalt be blessed above all people… And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness,… [and] will lay them upon all them that hate thee… If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how shall I dispossess them? Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the