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

But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman with a despairing spirit. I have not been drinking wine or any intoxicating drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

For we will certainly die and are like water that is spilled on the ground and cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not [simply] take away life, but devises plans so that the one who is banished is not driven away from Him.

“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.

I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I soak my bed with tears,
I drench my couch with my weeping.

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

My eyes weep streams of water
Because people do not keep Your 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 because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.

My eyes overflow unceasingly,
Without stopping,

Fasted

Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set himself [determinedly, as his vital need] to seek the Lord; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, so that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a safe journey for us, our children, and all our possessions.

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites assembled with fasting and in sackcloth and with dirt on their heads.

So I directed my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

“Even now,” says the Lord,
“Turn and come to Me with all your heart [in genuine repentance],
With fasting and weeping and mourning [until every barrier is removed and the broken fellowship is restored];

We have sinned

‘If they confess their wickedness and the wickedness of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they have committed against Me—and also in their acting with hostility toward Me—

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord [for help], saying, “We have sinned against You, because we have abandoned (rejected) our God and have served the Baals.”

if they take it to heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and they repent and pray to You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong and we have acted wickedly;’

At the evening offering I arose from my [time of] humiliation and penitence and having torn my clothing and my robe, I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the Lord my God,

“He sings out to other men,
‘I have sinned and perverted that which was right,
And it was not proper for me!

“Behold, I am of little importance and contemptible; what can I reply to You?
I lay my hand on my mouth.

“Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself]
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

‘Only understand fully and acknowledge your wickedness and guilt,
That you have rebelled (transgressed) against the Lord your God
And have scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.

‘After I turned away [from You], I repented;
After I was instructed, I struck my thigh [in remorse];
I was ashamed and even humiliated
Because I carried the disgrace of my youth [as a nation].’

I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

General references

The words of wise men heard in quietness are better than the shouting of one who rules among fools.