Ezra 10:1
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Confession of Improper Marriages
10 Now (A)while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down (B)before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very (C)bitterly.
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Daniel 9:20
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The Seventy-Weeks Prophecy
20 Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God,
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Psalm 119:136
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136 (A)Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your law.
Romans 9:2
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2 (A)that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.
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1 John 1:8-10
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8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we (A)confess our sins, He is (B)faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to (C)cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we (D)make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
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1 Kings 8:30
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30 (A)And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive.
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Luke 19:41
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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and (A)wept over it,
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Zechariah 12:10
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Mourning for the Pierced One
10 (A)“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will (B)look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him (C)as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
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Daniel 9:3-4
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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,
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Nehemiah 10:28
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The Covenant That Was Sealed
28 (A)Now the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, (B)and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding—
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Nehemiah 8:9
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9 (A)And Nehemiah, who was the [a]governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, (B)“This day is holy to the Lord your God; (C)do not mourn nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.
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- Nehemiah 8:9 Heb. Tirshatha
2 Chronicles 20:9
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9 (A)‘If disaster comes upon us—sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your (B)name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’
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Joel 2:16-18
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16 Gather the people,
(A)Sanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders,
Gather the children and nursing babes;
(B)Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber,
And the bride from her dressing room.
17 Let the priests, who minister to the Lord,
Weep (C)between the porch and the altar;
Let them say, (D)“Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not give Your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should [a]rule over them.
(E)Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”
The Land Refreshed(F)
18 Then the Lord will (G)be zealous for His land,
And pity His people.
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- Joel 2:17 Or speak a proverb against them
Hosea 14:2
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2 Take words with you,
And return to the Lord.
Say to Him,
“Take away all iniquity;
Receive us graciously,
For we will offer the (A)sacrifices[a] of our lips.
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- Hosea 14:2 Lit. bull calves; LXX fruit
Jeremiah 13:17
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17 But if you will not hear it,
My soul will (A)weep in secret for your pride;
My eyes will weep bitterly
And run down with tears,
Because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
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 32:5
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5 I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I have not hidden.
(A)I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
1 Kings 9:3
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3 And the Lord said to him: (A)“I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built (B)to put My name there forever, (C)and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
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Leviticus 26:40-41
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40 ‘But (A)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their (B)uncircumcised hearts are (C)humbled, and they (D)accept their guilt—
Acts 21:5
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5 When we had come to the end of those days, we departed and went on our way; and they all accompanied us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city. And (A)we knelt down on the shore and prayed.
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Acts 10:30
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30 So Cornelius said, [a]“Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, (A)a man stood before me (B)in bright clothing,
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- Acts 10:30 NU Four days ago to this hour, at the ninth hour
2 Chronicles 20:13
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13 Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the Lord.
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Judges 2:4-5
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4 So it was, when the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voices and wept.
5 Then they called the name of that place [a]Bochim; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.
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- Judges 2:5 Lit. Weeping
Deuteronomy 31:12
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12 (A)Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law,
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