Nehemiah 1:6
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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.(A)
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Daniel 9:20
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The Seventy Weeks
20 While I was speaking and was praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God,(A)
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Daniel 9:4
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4 I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying,
“Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love with those who love you[a] and keep your[b] commandments,(A)
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Psalm 106:6
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6 Both we and our ancestors have sinned;
we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.(A)
Psalm 34:15
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15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their cry.(A)
2 Chronicles 29:6
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6 For our ancestors have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God; they have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the dwelling of the Lord and turned their backs.(A)
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2 Chronicles 6:40
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40 Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to prayer from this place.(A)
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Daniel 9:17-18
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17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, and for your own sake, Lord,[a] let your face shine upon your desolated sanctuary.(A) 18 Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies.(B)
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- 9.17 Theodotion Vg Compare Syr: Heb for the Lord’s sake
Isaiah 6:5
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5 And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”(A)
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1 John 1:9
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9 If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.(A)
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Luke 18:7
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7 And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?
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Lamentations 5:7
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7 Our ancestors sinned; they are no more,
and we bear their iniquities.(A)
2 Timothy 1:3
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Thanksgiving and Encouragement
3 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.(A)
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1 Timothy 5:5
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5 The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,(A)
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Lamentations 3:39-42
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39 Why should any who draw breath complain
about the punishment of their sins?(A)
40 Let us test and examine our ways
and return to the Lord.(B)
41 Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands
to God in heaven.(C)
42 We have transgressed and rebelled,
and you have not forgiven.(D)
Ezra 10:1
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The People’s Response
10 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him out of Israel; the people also wept bitterly.(A)
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Ezra 9:6-7
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6 and said,
“O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.(A) 7 From the days of our ancestors to this day we have been deep in guilt, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as is now the case.(B)
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Ephesians 2:3
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3 All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(A)
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Luke 2:37
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37 then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.(A)
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Isaiah 64:6-7
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6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.(A)
7 There is no one who calls on your name
or attempts to take hold of you,
for you have hidden your face from us
and have delivered[a] us into the hand of our iniquity.(B)
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- 64.7 Gk Syr OL Tg: Heb melted
Psalm 130:2
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2 Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my supplications!(A)
Psalm 88:1
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Psalm 88
Prayer for Help in Despondency
A Song. A Psalm of the Korahites. To the leader: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 O Lord, God of my salvation,
at night, when I cry out before you,(A)
Psalm 55:17
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17 Evening and morning and at noon
I utter my complaint and moan,
and he will hear my voice.(A)
Psalm 32:5
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5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not hide my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah(A)
Ezra 10:11
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11 Now make confession to the Lord the God of your ancestors and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”(A)
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