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Daniel 9:20
While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain–
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Daniel 9:4
I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way:“ O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments,
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2 Chronicles 6 40
“ Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.
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Psalms 34:15
The LORD pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help.
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Luke 18:7
Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?
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2 Chronicles 29 6
For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the LORD our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the LORD’s dwelling place and rejected him.
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Psalms 106:6
We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.
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Daniel 9:17-18
“ So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.
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Isaiah 6:5
I said,“ Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD who commands armies.”
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1John 1:9
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Ezra 10:1
While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites– men, women, and children alike– gathered around him. The people wept loudly.
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Lamentations 5:7
Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.
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Ephesians 2:3
among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
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Psalms 88:1
O LORD God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.
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Psalms 55:17
During the evening, morning, and noontime I will lament and moan, and he will hear me.
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Psalms 130:2
O Lord, listen to me! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!
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Lamentations 3:39-42
Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?נ( Nun)Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD.Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:“ We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.”ס( Samek)
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1 Samuel 15 11
“ I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the LORD all that night.
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Psalms 32:5
Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said,“ I will confess my rebellious acts to the LORD.” And then you forgave my sins.( Selah)
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Isaiah 64:6-7
We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.
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Luke 2:37
She had lived as a widow since then for eighty- four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
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2 Timothy 1 3
I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.
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2 Chronicles 28 10
And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
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1 Kings 8 28-1 Kings 8 29
But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today.Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
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Ezra 9:6-7
I prayed,“ O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment– right up to the present time.
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1 Timothy 5 5
But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.
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Ezra 10:11
Now give praise to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives.”