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Prayer: Confession In Leviticus 5:5

If someone incurs guilt in one of these ways, he must confess the sin he has committed,

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Prayer: Confession In Leviticus 26:40

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

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Prayer: Confession In Numbers 5:5–7

And the LORD said to Moses, / “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty / and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.

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Prayer: Confession In Judges 10:10, 15

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.” / “We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”

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Prayer: Confession In 1 Samuel 12:10

Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’

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Prayer: Confession In 1 Kings 8:47

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 of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

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Prayer: Confession In Ezra 9:6, 15

and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens. / O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”

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Prayer: Confession In Nehemiah 1:6, 7

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. / We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.

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Prayer: Confession In Nehemiah 9:2, 33–35

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. / You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly. / For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

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Prayer: Confession In Job 7:20

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

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Prayer: Confession In Job 40:4, 5

“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth. / I have spoken once, but I have no answer—twice, but I have nothing to add.”

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 31:10

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 32:3, 5

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long. / Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 38:4–8, 10, 18

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear. / My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly. / I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 40:12

For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 51:3, 4

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. / Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 69:5

You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 106:6, 7

We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly. / Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 119:176

I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

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Prayer: Confession In Psalm 130:3

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

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Prayer: Confession In Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

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Prayer: Confession In Isaiah 6:5

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; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

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Prayer: Confession In Isaiah 59:12, 13

For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities: / rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

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Prayer: Confession In Jeremiah 3:13, 25

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD. / Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

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Prayer: Confession In Jeremiah 14:7, 20

Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You. / We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

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Prayer: Confession In Lamentations 1:18

The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

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Prayer: Confession In Lamentations 3:42

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

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Prayer: Confession In Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

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Prayer: Confession In Daniel 9:5–15

we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances. / We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land. / To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.

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