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Job 29:9
The princes stood in silence and put their hands over their mouths.
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Job 21:5
Look at me and be stunned. Put your hand over your mouth in shock.
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Proverbs 30:32
If you have been a fool by being proud or plotting evil, cover your mouth in shame.
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Job 42:6
I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”
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Isaiah 6:5
Then I said,“ It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
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Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham spoke again.“ Since I have begun, let me speak further to my Lord, even though I am but dust and ashes.
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Judges 18:19
“ Be quiet and come with us,” they said.“ Be a father and priest to all of us. Isn’t it better to be a priest for an entire tribe and clan of Israel than for the household of just one man?”
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Ezra 9:6
I prayed,“ O my God, I am utterly ashamed; I blush to lift up my face to you. For our sins are piled higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
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Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of all the unfailing love and faithfulness you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home and crossed the Jordan River, I owned nothing except a walking stick. Now my household fills two large camps!
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Job 23:4-7
I would lay out my case and present my arguments.Then I would listen to his reply and understand what he says to me.Would he use his great power to argue with me? No, he would give me a fair hearing.Honest people can reason with him, so I would be forever acquitted by my judge.
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Luke 18:13
“ But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying,‘ O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’
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Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.”
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Luke 5:8
When Simon Peter realized what had happened, he fell to his knees before Jesus and said,“ Oh, Lord, please leave me— I’m such a sinful man.”
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Micah 7:16
All the nations of the world will stand amazed at what the Lord will do for you. They will be embarrassed at their feeble power. They will cover their mouths in silent awe, deaf to everything around them.
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Job 16:21
I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.
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Job 31:37
For I would tell him exactly what I have done. I would come before him like a prince.
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1 Timothy 1 15
This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it:“ Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”— and I am the worst of them all.
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Psalms 51:4-5
Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
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Isaiah 64:6
We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
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1 Kings 19 4
Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die.“ I have had enough, Lord,” he said.“ Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.”
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Daniel 9:5
But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.
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Luke 15:18-19
I will go home to my father and say,“ Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you,and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’
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Ezra 9:15
O Lord, God of Israel, you are just. We come before you in our guilt as nothing but an escaped remnant, though in such a condition none of us can stand in your presence.”
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Job 9:31-35
you would plunge me into a muddy ditch, and my own filthy clothing would hate me.“ God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us together.The mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment.Then I could speak to him without fear, but I cannot do that in my own strength.
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Psalms 39:9
I am silent before you; I won’t say a word, for my punishment is from you.
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Isaiah 53:6
All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
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Daniel 9:7
“ Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.
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Zechariah 2:13
Be silent before the Lord, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling.”
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Nehemiah 9:33
Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.
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2 Samuel 24 10
But after he had taken the census, David’s conscience began to bother him. And he said to the Lord,“ I have sinned greatly by taking this census. Please forgive my guilt, Lord, for doing this foolish thing.”