and the pillar Mizpah, for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other.
1 Samuel 7:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted on that day and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah. American Standard Version (1901) And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Jehovah, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah. Common English Bible So they assembled at Mizpah, and they drew water and poured it out in the LORD’s presence. They fasted that same day and confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” Samuel served as judge of the Israelites at Mizpah. Catholic Public Domain Version And they convened at Mizpah. And they drew water, and they poured it out in the sight of the Lord. And on that day they fasted, and in that place they said, "We have sinned against the Lord." And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they gathered together to Masphath. And they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord; and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath. |
and the pillar Mizpah, for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other.
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.
then if they come to their senses in the land to which they have been taken captive and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
Then the Three broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and they brought it to David. But David would not drink of it; he poured it out to the Lord
Jehoshaphat was afraid; he set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Therefore you gave them into the hands of their enemies, who made them suffer. Then in the time of their suffering they cried out to you, and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
That person sings to others and says, ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not paid back to me.
“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Both we and our ancestors have sinned; we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
For after I had turned away I repented, and after I was discovered, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was dismayed because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”
In the fifth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.
O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.
Will you judge them, mortal; will you judge them? Then let them know the abominations of their ancestors
Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you, for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor
Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
“This shall be a statute to you forever: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble yourselves and shall do no work, neither the native-born nor the alien who resides among you.
“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors—their treachery against me and also their continued hostility to me,
I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
So the Israelites cried to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have abandoned our God and have served the Baals.”
And the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you, but deliver us this day!”
When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
The Israelites strengthened themselves and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.
Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went back to Bethel and wept, sitting there before the Lord; they fasted that day until evening. Then they offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being before the Lord.
The spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel; he went out to war, and the Lord gave King Cushan-rishathaim of Aram into his hand, and his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman deeply troubled; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.
Then they cried to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Astartes, but now rescue us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’