1705 verses about Repentance

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

“Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”