Nehemiah 1:6

Good News Translation

Look at me, Lord, and hear my prayer, as I pray day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess that we, the people of Israel, have sinned. My ancestors and I have sinned.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:30

Hear my prayers and the prayers of your people when they face this place and pray. In your home in heaven hear us and forgive us.

1 Kings 8:47

listen to your people's prayers. If there in that land they repent and pray to you, confessing how sinful and wicked they have been, hear their prayers, O Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:10

And now you intend to make the men and women of Jerusalem and Judah your slaves. Don't you know that you also have committed sins against the Lord your God?

2 Chronicles 29:6

Our ancestors were unfaithful to the Lord our God and did what was displeasing to him. They abandoned him and turned their backs on the place where he dwells.

2 Chronicles 6:40

“Now, O my God, look on us and listen to the prayers offered in this place.

Ezra 10:1

While Ezra was bowing in prayer in front of the Temple, weeping and confessing these sins, a large group of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, weeping bitterly.

Ezra 10:11

Now then, confess your sins to the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and do what pleases him. Separate yourselves from the foreigners living in our land and get rid of your foreign wives.”

Nehemiah 1:11

Listen now to my prayer and to the prayers of all your other servants who want to honor you. Give me success today and make the emperor merciful to me.” In those days I was the emperor's wine steward.

Psalm 102:17

He will hear his forsaken people and listen to their prayer.

Psalm 106:6

We have sinned as our ancestors did; we have been wicked and evil.

Psalm 130:2

Hear my cry, O Lord; listen to my call for help!

Psalm 32:5

Then I confessed my sins to you; I did not conceal my wrongdoings. I decided to confess them to you, and you forgave all my sins.

Psalm 34:15

The Lord watches over the righteous and listens to their cries;

Psalm 55:17

Morning, noon, and night my complaints and groans go up to him, and he will hear my voice.

Psalm 88:1

Lord God, my savior, I cry out all day, and at night I come before you.

Isaiah 6:5

I said, “There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned, but now they are gone, and we are suffering for their sins.

Daniel 9:15

“O Lord our God, you showed your power by bringing your people out of Egypt, and your power is still remembered. We have sinned; we have done wrong.

Daniel 9:20

I went on praying, confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel and pleading with the Lord my God to restore his holy Temple.

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed the sins of my people. I said, “Lord God, you are great, and we honor you. You are faithful to your covenant and show constant love to those who love you and do what you command.

Daniel 9:5

“We have sinned, we have been evil, we have done wrong. We have rejected what you commanded us to do and have turned away from what you showed us was right.

Daniel 9:8

Our kings, our rulers, and our ancestors have acted shamefully and sinned against you, Lord.

Luke 18:7

Now, will God not judge in favor of his own people who cry to him day and night for help? Will he be slow to help them?

Ephesians 2:3

Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.

1 Timothy 5:5

A widow who is all alone, with no one to take care of her, has placed her hope in God and continues to pray and ask him for his help night and day.

2 Timothy 1:3

I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did. I thank him as I remember you always in my prayers night and day.

1 John 1:9

But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I am sorry that I made Saul king; he has turned away from me and disobeyed my commands.” Samuel was angry, and all night long he pleaded with the Lord.