Nehemiah 1:6

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Summary

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

Thine ear

Daniel 9:17

Day and night

2 Timothy 1:3

Confess

1 John 1:9

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Bible References

Thine ear

But respond favorably to your servant's prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today.

"Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

The Lord pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help.

O Lord, listen to me! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!

"So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.

Day and night

"I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do." Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

During the evening, morning, and noontime I will lament and moan, and he will hear me.

A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O Lord God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

Won't God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

Confess

I prayed, "O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives."

Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said, "I will confess my rebellious acts to the Lord." And then you forgave my sins. (Selah)

We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.

Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?

I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way: "O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments,

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

Both i

And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?

For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the Lord's dwelling place and rejected him.

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

I said, "Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies."

Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest