1 Samuel 7:6

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⁶When they had assembled at Mizpah,^(A) they drew water and poured^(B) it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Now Samuel was serving as leader^[a]^(C) of Israel at Mizpah.

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1 Samuel 7:6 Traditionally judge; also in verse 15

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2 Samuel 14:14

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¹⁴Like water^(A) spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die.^(B) But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person^(C) does not remain banished from him.

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1 Samuel 1:15

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¹⁵“Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled.^(A) I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring^(B) out my soul to the Lord.

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Judges 10:10

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¹⁰Then the Israelites cried^(A) out to the Lord, “We have sinned^(B) against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”^(C)

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Joel 2:12

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Rend Your Heart

¹²“Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return^(A) to me with all your heart,^(B)
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

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Jeremiah 9:1

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9 ^[a]¹Oh, that my head were a spring of water
and my eyes a fountain of tears!^(A)
I would weep^(B) day and night
for the slain of my people.^(C)

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Jeremiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.

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Psalm 106:6

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⁶We have sinned,^(A) even as our ancestors^(B) did;
we have done wrong and acted wickedly.^(C)

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Psalm 62:8

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⁸Trust in him at all times, you people;^(A)
pour out your hearts to him,^(B)
for God is our refuge.

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Luke 15:18

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¹⁸I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned^(A) against heaven and against you.

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Lamentations 2:18-19

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¹⁸The hearts of the people
    cry out to the Lord.^(A)
You walls of Daughter Zion,^(B)
    let your tears^(C) flow like a river
    day and night;^(D)
give yourself no relief,
    your eyes no rest.^(E)

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night,
    as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart^(F) like water
    in the presence of the Lord.^(G)
Lift up your hands^(H) to him
    for the lives of your children,
who faint^(I) from hunger
    at every street corner.

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Psalm 119:136

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¹³⁶Streams of tears^(A) flow from my eyes,
for your law is not obeyed.^(B)

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1 Kings 8:47

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⁴⁷and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead^(A) with you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’;^(B)

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Jonah 3

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Jonah Goes to Nineveh

3 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah^(A) a second time: ²“Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

³Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. ⁴Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming,^(B) “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” ⁵The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.^(C)

⁶When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.^(D) ⁷This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:

“By the decree of the king and his nobles:

Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.^(E) ⁸But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call^(F) urgently on God. Let them give up^(G) their evil ways^(H) and their violence.^(I) ⁹Who knows?^(J) God may yet relent^(K) and with compassion turn^(L) from his fierce anger^(M) so that we will not perish.”

¹⁰When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented^(N) and did not bring on them the destruction^(O) he had threatened.^(P)

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Daniel 9:3-5

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³So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting,^(A) and in sackcloth and ashes.^(B)

⁴I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:^(C)

“Lord, the great and awesome God,^(D) who keeps his covenant of love^(E) with those who love him and keep his commandments, ⁵we have sinned^(F) and done wrong.^(G) We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away^(H) from your commands and laws.^(I)

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Ezekiel 20:4

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⁴“Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their ancestors^(A)

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Lamentations 3:49

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⁴⁹My eyes will flow unceasingly,
without relief,^(A)

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Lamentations 2:11

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¹¹My eyes fail from weeping,^(A)
    I am in torment within^(B);
my heart^(C) is poured out^(D) on the ground
    because my people are destroyed,^(E)
because children and infants faint^(F)
    in the streets of the city.

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Jeremiah 31:19

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¹⁹After I strayed,^(A)
    I repented;
after I came to understand,
    I beat^(B) my breast.
I was ashamed^(C) and humiliated
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’^(D)

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Jeremiah 3:13-14

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¹³Only acknowledge^(A) your guilt—
    you have rebelled against the Lord your God,
you have scattered your favors to foreign gods^(B)
    under every spreading tree,^(C)
    and have not obeyed^(D) me,’”
declares the Lord.

¹⁴“Return,^(E) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.^(F) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

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Psalm 42:3

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³My tears^(A) have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”^(B)

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Psalm 38:3-8

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³Because of your wrath there is no health^(A) in my body;
there is no soundness in my bones^(B) because of my sin.
⁴My guilt has overwhelmed^(C) me
like a burden too heavy to bear.^(D)

⁵My wounds^(E) fester and are loathsome^(F)
    because of my sinful folly.^(G)
⁶I am bowed down^(H) and brought very low;
    all day long I go about mourning.^(I)
⁷My back is filled with searing pain;^(J)
    there is no health^(K) in my body.
⁸I am feeble and utterly crushed;^(L)
    I groan^(M) in anguish of heart.^(N)