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 have poured out my soul before the LORD.

For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.

Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears.

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

Rivers of waters ran down my eyes because they did not keep 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!

Caph My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

Ain My eyes run down, and cease not, for there is no relief,

Fasted

Then Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the LORD and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right 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 turned my face unto the Lord God, seeking him in prayer and supplication, in fasting and sackcloth, and ashes:

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn unto 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 for their trespass which they trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me,

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

and they return unto their heart in the land where they were carried captives and return and make supplication unto thee in the land of those that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned and have done iniquity, we have committed wickedness;

And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my affliction; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me;

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand over my mouth.

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

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

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

Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast rebelled against the LORD thy God and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not heard my voice, said the LORD.

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

I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee

General references

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.