1 Kings 8:30
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30 Hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place; O hear in heaven your dwelling place; hear and forgive.(A)
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1 Kings 8:39
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39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place, forgive, act, and render to all whose hearts you know—according to all their ways, for only you know the human heart(A)—
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1 Kings 8:36
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36 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.(A)
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1 Kings 8:34
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34 then hear in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land that you gave to their ancestors.
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Daniel 9:19
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19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”(A)
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Isaiah 57:15
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15 For thus says the high and lofty one
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
and to revive the heart of the contrite.(A)
Ecclesiastes 5:2
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2 [a]Never be rash with your mouth nor let your heart be quick to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.(A)
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- 5.2 5.1 in Heb
Psalm 130:3-4
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3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?(A)
4 But there is forgiveness with you,
so that you may be revered.(B)
Matthew 6:12
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12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.(A)
Matthew 6:9
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9 “Pray, then, in this way:
Our Father in heaven,
may your name be revered as holy.
Psalm 123:1
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Psalm 123
Supplication for Mercy
A Song of Ascents.
1 To you I lift up my eyes,
O you who are enthroned in the heavens!(A)
Psalm 113:5-6
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5 Who is like the Lord our God,
who is seated on high,(A)
6 who looks far down
on the heavens and the earth?(B)
Psalm 85:2
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2 You forgave the iniquity of your people;
you pardoned all their sin. Selah(A)
Psalm 33:13-14
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13 The Lord looks down from heaven;
he sees all humankind.(A)
14 From where he sits enthroned he watches
all the inhabitants of the earth—
Nehemiah 1:5-6
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5 I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,(A) 6 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for your servants, the Israelites, confessing the sins of the Israelites, which we have sinned against you. Both I and my family have sinned.(B)
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2 Chronicles 20:8-9
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8 They have lived in it and in it have built you a sanctuary for your name, saying, 9 ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment,[a] or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you, for your name is in this house, and cry to you in our distress, and you will hear and save.’(A)
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- 20.9 Or the sword of judgment
2 Chronicles 6:21
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21 And hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place; may you hear from heaven your dwelling place; hear and forgive.(A)
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1 Kings 8:49
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49 then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, maintain their cause,
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1 Kings 8:43
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43 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and do whatever the foreigners ask of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so they may know that your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.(A)
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2 Chronicles 7:14
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14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.(A)
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