1 Samuel 7:6
The Israelites gathered at Mizpah. They drew some water, poured it out in front of Jehovah and fasted that day. They confessed: We have sinned against Jehovah. So Samuel judged Israel in Mizpah.
Judges 10:10
The children of Israel cried out to Jehovah: We sinned against you. We left our God and served the Baals.
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our fathers! We have committed iniquity and have behaved wickedly.
1 Samuel 1:15
No, I am not drunk, she answered. I have not been drinking! I am desperate. I have prayed and poured out my troubles to Jehovah.
2 Samuel 14:14
We each must die and disappear like water poured out on the ground. But God does not take our lives. Instead, he figures out ways of bringing us back when we run away.
1 Kings 8:47
If they come to their senses and are sorry for what they have done, and plead with you in the land where they are captives, saying: We have sinned. We have done wrong. We have been wicked.
Leviticus 26:40
However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me,
Judges 3:10
The Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and he became Israel's leader (judge). Othniel went to war, and Jehovah gave him the victory over the king of Mesopotamia.
2 Chronicles 20:3
Jehoshaphat was frightened and decided to ask for Jehovah's help. He announced a fast throughout Judah.
Ezra 8:21-23
Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the Ahava River, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a safe journey for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.
Ezra 9:5-10
I humbled myself before God at the evening offering. I got up, with signs of grief, and fell on my knees with my hands stretched out to Jehovah my God,
Nehemiah 9:1-3
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies.
Nehemiah 9:27
So you gave them up into the hands of their enemies who were cruel to them. In the time of their trouble, when they prayed to you, you listened to them from heaven. In your great mercy you gave them saviors, who made them free from the hands of their enemies.
Job 16:20
My friends are my scoffers. My eye weeps to God.
Job 33:27
He comes to men and says: 'I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.'
Job 40:4
I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I will put my hand over my mouth.
Job 42:6
Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalm 6:6
I am worn out from groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Psalm 38:3-8
No healthy spot is left on my body because of your rage. There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?
Psalm 62:8
Trust him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in his presence. God is our refuge.
Psalm 119:136
My eyes shed streams of water, because they do not keep your law.
Jeremiah 3:13-14
Admit that you have done wrong! You have rebelled against Jehovah your God. You have given yourself to foreign gods under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,' says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears. Then I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 31:19
We turned away from you. But soon we wanted to return. After you had punished us we hung our heads in grief. We were ashamed and disgraced because we sinned when we were young.'
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
Lamentations 2:18-19
Let your cry go up to Jehovah: O wall of the daughter of Zion let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night. Give yourself no rest. Do not let your eyes hold back the drops of sorrow.
Lamentations 3:49
My eyes stream without stopping. They have no rest.
Ezekiel 20:4
Are you willing to warn them, Ezekiel? Then remind them of the disgusting sins of their ancestors.
Daniel 9:3-5
I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Joel 2:12
Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!
Jonah 3:1-10
The word of Jehovah came to Jonah a second time:
Luke 15:18
I will go to my father and say: 'Father I have sinned against God and against you.