Quotes about Repentance
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.
— Nehemiah 1:6
We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.
— Nehemiah 1:7
Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
— Nehemiah 4:5
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.
— Nehemiah 9:1
You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
— Nehemiah 9:29
You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
— Nehemiah 9:33
Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
— Nehemiah 9:34
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
— Job 7:21
When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
— Job 8:4
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
— Job 9:30
that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
— Job 10:6
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
— Job 10:14