For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my afflict
But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hand
And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition. So He brought him back to Jerusalem and to
My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are
They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters,
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.