1 Samuel 7:6

New American Bible - revised edition

When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out on the ground before the Lord, and they fasted that day, saying, “We have sinned against the Lord.” It was at Mizpah that Samuel began to judge the Israelites. Rout of the Philistines.

Cross References

Genesis 31:49

and also Mizpah, for he said: “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.

2 Samuel 14:14

We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banish anyone from him.

1 Kings 8:47

and they have a change of heart in the land of their captivity and they turn and entreat you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked’;

1 Chronicles 11:18

Thereupon the Three broke through the encampment of the Philistines, drew water from the cistern by the gate of Bethlehem, and carried it back to David. But David refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out to the Lord,

2 Chronicles 20:3

Frightened, Jehoshaphat resolved to consult the Lord. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Nehemiah 9:27

Therefore you gave them into the power of their enemies, who oppressed them. But in the time of their oppression they would cry out to you, and you would hear them from heaven, And according to your great mercy give them saviors to deliver them from the power of their enemies.

Job 16:20

My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes shed tears,

Job 3:24

For to me sighing comes more readily than food; my groans well forth like water.

Job 33:27

He shall sing before all and say, “I sinned and did wrong, yet I was not punished accordingly.

Job 40:4

Look, I am of little account; what can I answer you? I put my hand over my mouth.

Job 42:6

Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes. Job’s Restoration.

Psalm 106:6

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong and are guilty.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not observed.

Psalm 42:3

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I enter and see the face of God?

Psalm 6:6

For in death there is no remembrance of you. Who praises you in Sheol?

Psalm 62:8

My deliverance and honor are with God, my strong rock; my refuge is with God.

Jeremiah 31:19

For after I turned away, I repented; after I came to myself, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, even humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.

Jeremiah 36:9

In the ninth month, in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, all the people of Jerusalem and all those who came from Judah’s cities to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a travelers’ lodging! That I might leave my people and depart from them. They are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with tears, my stomach churns; My bile is poured out on the ground at the brokenness of the daughter of my people, As children and infants collapse in the streets of the town.

Lamentations 3:49

My eyes will flow without ceasing, without rest,

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head: woe to us that we sinned!

Ezekiel 20:4

Will you judge them? Will you judge, son of man? Tell them about the abominations of their ancestors,

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, priests, Pay attention, house of Israel, Household of the king, give ear! For you are responsible for judgment. But you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread upon Tabor,

Joel 2:12

Yet even now—oracle of the Lord— return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Leviticus 16:29

This shall be an everlasting statute for you: on the tenth day of the seventh month every one of you, whether a native or a resident alien, shall humble yourselves and shall do no work.

Leviticus 26:40

They will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me,

Luke 15:18

I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

Joshua 18:26

Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

Judges 10:10

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, for we have abandoned our God and served the Baals.”

Judges 10:15

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. Do to us whatever is good in your sight. Only deliver us this day!”

Judges 2:4

When the messenger of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud.

Judges 20:23

Then the Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. “Shall I again engage my brother Benjamin in battle?” they asked the Lord; and the Lord answered: Attack!

Judges 20:26

So the entire Israelite army went up and entered Bethel, where they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and communion offerings before the Lord.

Judges 3:10

The spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel. When he marched out to war, the Lord delivered Cushan-rishathaim, king of Aram, into his power, and his hold on Cushan-rishathaim was firm.

1 Samuel 1:15

“No, my lord!” Hannah answered. “I am an unhappy woman. I have had neither wine nor liquor; I was only pouring out my heart to the Lord.

1 Samuel 10:17

Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah

1 Samuel 12:10

They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned because we abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and Astartes. Now deliver us from the power of our enemies, and we will serve you.’

1 Samuel 7:15

Samuel judged Israel as long as he lived.