Nehemiah 1:6

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Cross References (27)

  • Daniel 9:20 (18)

    While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LOR

  • Daniel 9:4 (17)

    And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving dev

  • Psalms 34:15 (13)

    The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.

  • Psalms 106:6 (12)

    We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

  • Daniel 9:17–18 (9)

    So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Yo

  • 2 Chronicles 29:6 (8)

    For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces aw

  • 2 Chronicles 6:40 (8)

    Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

  • Isaiah 6:5 (7)

    Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; fo

  • 1 John 1:9 (6)

    If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  • Luke 18:7 (5)

    Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?

  • Lamentations 3:39–42 (4)

    Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

  • Lamentations 5:7 (4)

    Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

  • 2 Timothy 1:3 (4)

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

  • Psalms 55:17 (3)

    Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

  • Ezra 9:6–7 (3)

    and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher t

  • 1 Kings 8:28–29 (3)

    Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your ser

  • Ezra 10:1 (3)

    While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly

  • Psalms 32:5 (3)

    Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,”

  • Psalms 130:2 (3)

    O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

  • Isaiah 64:6–7 (3)

    Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf

  • 1 Timothy 5:5 (3)

    The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and

  • Ezra 10:11 (2)

    Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the pe

  • 2 Chronicles 28:10 (2)

    And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the

  • Psalms 88:1 (2)

    A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahit

  • Luke 2:37 (2)

    and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and pray

  • Ephesians 2:3 (2)

    All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts

  • 1 Samuel 15:11 (2)

    “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.”