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 will answer and say, No, my lord, I a woman hard of spirit, and wine and strong drink I drank not, and I will pour out my soul before Jehovah.

For dying, we shall die, and as waters poured out on the earth, which will not be gathered; and God will not lift up the soul: and reckoning, he reckons that the fugitive shall not be driven out from him.

My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.

I was wearied with my sighing all the night I shall make my bed to swim with my tears; I shall make my couch to flow.

My tears were to me bread day and night, in saying to me all the days, Where is thy God?

Mine eyes will bring down streams of waters because they will not watch thy laws.

Who will give my head waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears? and I will weep day and night for the wounded of the daughter of my people.

Mine eyes failed with tears, my bowels were in a ferment, my liver was poured out to the earth, upon the breaking of the daughter of my people; in the fainting of the child and suckling in the wide places of the city.

Mine eye flowed and it will not be silent, from no intermission,

Fasted

And Jehoshaphat will fear, and he will give his face to seek to Jehovah, and he will call a fast for all Judah.

And I shall call a fast there, upon the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

And in the twenty and fourth day to this month, the sons of Israel were gathered together with fasting and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:

And also now, says Jehovah, Turn back even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with wailing.

We have sinned

And they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, and the transgression which they dealt treacherously against me, and also that they went hostile with me;

And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah, saying, We sinned against thee because we forsook our God, and we shall serve the Baalims.

And they turned back to their heart in the land which they were carried captive there, and they turned back and supplicated to thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We sinned and acted perversely, and did evil;

And at the sacrifice of the evening I rose up from my humbling; and in my rending my garment and my robe and I shall bend upon my knees and spread forth my hands to Jehovah my God.

He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;

Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.

For this, I shall melt away, and I lamented in dust and ashes.

For thine arrows came down upon me, and thy hand will press down upon me.

We sinned with our fathers, we acted perversely, we did evil.

Only know thine iniquity that thou didst transgress against Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and to my voice ye heard not, says Jehovah.

For after my being turned back I was comforted; and after my knowing I struck upon the thigh: I was ashamed and also disgraced for I bore the reproach of my youth.

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

General references

The words of the wise being heard in quiet more than the cry of him ruling among the foolish.