32 Your servant became accountable to my father for the boy, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will always bear the guilt for sinning against you, my father.’(A)

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32 Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’(A)

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10 so they cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against You.(A) We have abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”

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10 Then the Israelites cried(A) out to the Lord, “We have sinned(B) against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”(C)

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let Your eyes be open and Your ears be attentive(A) to hear Your servant’s prayer that I now pray to You day and night(B) for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins[a] we have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:6 Lit sins of the Israelites

let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear(A) the prayer(B) your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess(C) the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.

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Psalm 39

The Fleeting Nature of Life

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.

I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”(A)

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Psalm 39[a]

For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

I said, “I will watch my ways(A)
    and keep my tongue from sin;(B)
I will put a muzzle on my mouth(C)
    while in the presence of the wicked.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:1 In Hebrew texts 39:1-13 is numbered 39:2-14.

Oh sinful nation,
people weighed down with iniquity,(A)
brood of evildoers,(B)
depraved children![a]
They have abandoned(C) the Lord;
they have despised(D) the Holy One of Israel;(E)
they have turned their backs on Him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:4 Or sons

Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,(A)
a brood of evildoers,(B)
    children given to corruption!(C)
They have forsaken(D) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One(E) of Israel
    and turned their backs(F) on him.

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