1 Samuel 7:6
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6 So they gathered together at Mizpah, (A)drew water, and poured it out before the Lord. And they (B)fasted that day, and said there, (C)“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah.
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2 Samuel 14:14
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14 For we (A)will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not (B)take away a life; but He (C)devises means, so that His banished ones are not [a]expelled from Him.
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- 2 Samuel 14:14 cast out
1 Samuel 1:15
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15 But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor intoxicating drink, but have (A)poured out my soul before the Lord.
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Judges 10:10
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10 (A)And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have (B)sinned against You, because we have both forsaken our God and served the Baals!”
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Joel 2:12
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A Call to Repentance
12 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord,
(A)“Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
Jeremiah 9:1
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Disobedience Brings God’s Judgment
9 Oh, (A)that my head were waters,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Psalm 106:6
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6 (A)We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
Psalm 62:8
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8 Trust in Him at all times, you people;
(A)Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us. Selah
Luke 15:18
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18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, (A)I have sinned against heaven and before you,
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Lamentations 2:18-19
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18 Their heart cried out to the Lord,
“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
(A)Let tears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief;
Give [a]your eyes no rest.
19 “Arise, (B)cry out in the night,
At the beginning of the watches;
(C)Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward Him
For the life of your young children,
Who faint from hunger (D)at the head of every street.”
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- Lamentations 2:18 Lit. the daughter of your eye
Psalm 119:136
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136 (A)Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your law.
1 Kings 8:47
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47 (A)yet when they [a]come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, (B)saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’;
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- 1 Kings 8:47 Lit. bring back to their heart
Jonah 3
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Jonah Preaches at Nineveh
3 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, [a]a three-day journey in extent. 4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then (A)he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
The People of Nineveh Believe
5 So the (B)people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6 Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth (C)and sat in ashes. 7 (D)And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his [b]nobles, saying,
Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, (E)let every one turn from his evil way and from (F)the violence that is in his hands. 9 (G)Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
10 (H)Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
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Daniel 9:3-5
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3 (A)Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O (B)Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 (C)we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
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Ezekiel 20:4
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4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then (A)make known to them the abominations of their fathers.
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Lamentations 3:49
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49 (A)My eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
Lamentations 2:11
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11 (A)My eyes fail with tears,
My [a]heart is troubled;
(B)My [b]bile is poured on the ground
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because (C)the children and the infants
Faint in the streets of the city.
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- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. inward parts
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. liver
Jeremiah 31:19
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19 Surely, (A)after my turning, I repented;
And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh;
I was (B)ashamed, yes, even humiliated,
Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
Jeremiah 3:13-14
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13 (A)Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have (B)scattered your [a]charms
To (C)alien deities (D)under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.
14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; (E)“for I am married to you. I will take you, (F)one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to (G)Zion.
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- Jeremiah 3:13 Lit. ways
Psalm 42:3
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3 (A)My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
(B)“Where is your God?”
Psalm 38:3-8
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3 There is no soundness in my flesh
Because of Your anger,
Nor any health in my bones
Because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head;
Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are foul and festering
Because of my foolishness.
6 I am [a]troubled, I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are full of inflammation,
And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.
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- Psalm 38:6 Lit. bent down
Psalm 6:6
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6 I am weary with my groaning;
[a]All night I make my bed swim;
I drench my couch with my tears.
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- Psalm 6:6 Or Every night
Job 42:6
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- Job 42:6 despise
Job 40:4
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Job 33:27
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27 Then he looks at men and (A)says,
‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right,
And it (B)did not profit me.’
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