When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away
“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have pou
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and
Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daug
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserve
and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day a
I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out m
My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You.
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust o
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a saf
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-ri
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me,
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of
Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated becau
There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers