1 Samuel 7:6
After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed there, "We have sinned against the Lord." So Samuel led the people of Israel at Mizpah.
Judges 10:10
The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: "We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals."
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.
1 Samuel 1:15
But Hannah replied, "That's not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the Lord.
2 Samuel 14:14
Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.
1 Kings 8:47
When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, 'We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.'
Leviticus 26:40
However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors' iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me
Judges 3:10
The Lord's spirit empowered him and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the Lord handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him.
2 Chronicles 20:3
Jehoshaphat was afraid, so he decided to seek the Lord's advice. He decreed that all Judah should observe a fast.
Ezra 8:21-23
I called for a fast there by the Ahava Canal, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and seek from him a safe journey for us, our children, and all our property.
Ezra 9:5-10
At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the Lord my God.
Nehemiah 9:1-3
On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.
Job 16:20
My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
Job 33:27
That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
Job 40:4
"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.
Job 42:6
Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
Psalm 6:6
I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.
Psalm 38:3-8
My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin.
Psalm 42:3
I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?"
Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)
Psalm 119:136
Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law.
Jeremiah 3:13-14
However, you must confess that you have done wrong, and that you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You must confess that you have given yourself to foreign gods under every green tree, and have not obeyed my commands,' says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:1
I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.
Jeremiah 31:19
For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses we beat our breasts in sorrow. We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.'
Lamentations 2:11
(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares.
Lamentations 2:18-19
(Tsade) Cry out from your heart to the Lord, O wall of Daughter Zion! Make your tears flow like a river all day and all night long! Do not rest; do not let your tears stop!
Lamentations 3:49
(Ayin) Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break
Ezekiel 20:4
"Are you willing to pronounce judgment? Are you willing to pronounce judgment, son of man? Then confront them with the abominable practices of their fathers,
Daniel 9:3-5
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Joel 2:12
"Yet even now," the Lord says, "return to me with all your heart -- with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!"
Jonah 3:1-10
The Lord said to Jonah a second time,
Luke 15:18
I will get up and go to my father and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.