Quotes About Confession

When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

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, ëWe have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,í

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.

And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments

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.”

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives.”

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 fatherís house have sinned.

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and they spent another quarter of the day in confession and worship of the LORD their God.

that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—

Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:

How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

ëI am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

Then he sings before men with these words: ëI have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

Then I will confess to you that your own right hand can save you.

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

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