Nehemiah 1:6

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Nehemiah 1:6

please turn your attention to observe carefully and listen to the prayer of your servant today that I am presenting to you day and night on behalf of your servants, the Israelis.

Daniel 9:20

"While I was still speaking in prayer, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and placing my request in the presence of the LORD my God on behalf of the holy mountain of God

2 Chronicles 6:40

"And now, my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers that are uttered in this place.

"Pay attention to me, you descendants of Levi! Consecrate yourselves and the Temple of the LORD God of your ancestors by taking out from the Holy Place whatever is unclean. Our ancestors have been unfaithful. They practiced what the LORD considers to be evil, abandoned him, turned their faces away from the place where the LORD resides, and turned their backs to him.

Psalm 106:6

We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.

Daniel 9:17-18

"So now, O God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his requests, and look with favor on your desolate sanctuary, for the sake of the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:11

"I regret that I made Saul king, because he has turned away from following me and has not carried out my commands." Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the LORD all night.

1 Kings 8:28-29

Pay attention to the prayer of your servant and to his request, LORD my God, and listen to the cry and prayer that your servant is praying in your presence today.

2 Chronicles 28:10

Now you're intending to make the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem to be your slaves. Surely you have your own sins against the LORD your God for which you're accountable, don't you?

Ezra 9:6-7

and said,

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra was praying and confessing in tears, having prostrated himself to the ground before the Temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelis men, women, and children gathered around him. Indeed, the people were crying bitterly.

Ezra 10:11

Now confess this to the LORD God of your ancestors, and separate yourselves from the nations of the land and from foreign wives."

Psalm 32:5

My sin I acknowledged to you; my iniquity I did not hide. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD." And you forgave the guilt of my sin! Interlude

Psalm 34:15

The LORD looks on the righteous, and he listens to their cries.

Psalm 55:17

Morning, noon, and night, I mulled over these things and cried out in my distress, and he heard my voice.

Psalm 88:1

LORD, God of my salvation, by day and by night I cry out before you.

Psalm 130:2

Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears pay attention to what I ask of you!

Isaiah 6:5

"How terrible it will be for me!" I cried, "because I am ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies!"

Isaiah 64:6-7

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.

Lamentations 3:39-42

Why should anyone living complain, any mortal, about being punished for sin?

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing and saying:

Luke 2:37

and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.

Luke 18:7

Won't God grant his chosen people justice when they cry out to him day and night? Is he slow to help them?

Ephesians 2:3

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

1 Timothy 5:5

A woman who has no other family members to care for her and who is left all alone has placed her hope in God and devotes herself to petitions and prayers night and day.

2 Timothy 1:3

I constantly thank my God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did when I remember you in my prayers night and day,

1 John 1:9

If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

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Summary

Nehemiah 1:6

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

Thine ear

Daniel 9:17

Day and night

2 Timothy 1:3

Confess

1 John 1:9

Both i

Bible References

Thine ear

Pay attention to the prayer of your servant and to his request, LORD my God, and listen to the cry and prayer that your servant is praying in your presence today.

"And now, my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers that are uttered in this place.

The LORD looks on the righteous, and he listens to their cries.

Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears pay attention to what I ask of you!

"So now, O God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his requests, and look with favor on your desolate sanctuary, for the sake of the Lord.

Day and night

"I regret that I made Saul king, because he has turned away from following me and has not carried out my commands." Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the LORD all night.

Morning, noon, and night, I mulled over these things and cried out in my distress, and he heard my voice.

LORD, God of my salvation, by day and by night I cry out before you.

and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.

Won't God grant his chosen people justice when they cry out to him day and night? Is he slow to help them?

A woman who has no other family members to care for her and who is left all alone has placed her hope in God and devotes herself to petitions and prayers night and day.

I constantly thank my God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did when I remember you in my prayers night and day,

Confess

and said,

Now confess this to the LORD God of your ancestors, and separate yourselves from the nations of the land and from foreign wives."

My sin I acknowledged to you; my iniquity I did not hide. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD." And you forgave the guilt of my sin! Interlude

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.

Why should anyone living complain, any mortal, about being punished for sin?

I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing and saying:

If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

Both i

Now you're intending to make the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem to be your slaves. Surely you have your own sins against the LORD your God for which you're accountable, don't you?

We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.

Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.