Nehemiah 1:6

Modern English Version

Let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant, which I pray before You now, day and night, for the Israelites Your servants, and confess the sins of the Israelites, which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:30

Please listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.

1 Kings 8:47

yet when they come to their senses while in the land where they were carried captives and repent and make supplication to You, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and have committed wickedness,’

2 Chronicles 28:10

And now you are planning to subdue for yourselves the people of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves. Do you all not surely have among you guilt before the Lord your God?

2 Chronicles 29:6

For our fathers have acted unfaithfully and have done what is evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and they have abandoned Him. They have turned their face from the sanctuary of the Lord and have turned their back.

2 Chronicles 6:40

“Now, O my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer that I offer in this place.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large congregation of men, women, and children gathered around him from Israel, for the people too wept bitterly.

Ezra 10:11

Now therefore make confession to the Lord God of your fathers and do what pleases Him: Sever your relationships with the people of the land, especially from the foreign women.”

Nehemiah 1:11

O Lord, I implore You, let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. And let Your servant prosper this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” For I was the king’s cupbearer.

Psalm 102:17

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their prayer.

Psalm 106:6

We, like our fathers, have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have behaved wickedly.

Psalm 130:2

Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!

Psalm 32:5

I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not conceal. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.   Selah

Psalm 34:15

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.

Psalm 55:17

Evening and morning and at noon will I reflect and groan, and He will hear my voice.

Psalm 88:1

O  Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before You.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.”

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their iniquities.

Daniel 9:15

“Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, even to this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

Daniel 9:20

While I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God,

Daniel 9:4

And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, “Alas, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping His covenant and mercy to those who love Him, and to those who keep His commandments.

Daniel 9:5

We have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments.

Daniel 9:8

O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, to our officials, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

Luke 18:7

And shall not God avenge His own elect and be patient with them, who cry day and night to Him?

Luke 2:37

And she was a widow of about eighty-four years of age who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fasting and prayer night and day.

Ephesians 2:3

among them we all also once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

1 Timothy 5:5

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

2 Timothy 1:3

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience as my forefathers did, as I continually remember you in my prayers night and day,

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I have set up Saul to be king because he has turned back from following Me, and he has not carried out My words.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried to the Lord all night.