1 Samuel 7:6

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Summary

And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

Drew water

Fasted

Joel 2:12

We have sinned

General references

Ecclesiastes 9:17

Bible References

Drew water

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before LORD.

For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.

My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.

Oh 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!

My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,

Fasted

And Jehoshaphat was afraid, and set himself to seek for LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

And I set my face to LORD God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

We have sinned

And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.

yet if they shall rethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to thee in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have

And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to LORD my God,

He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. we have done wickedly.

Surely after that I was turned back. I repented, and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.

General references

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.