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Psalm 106:6
We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
4Remember me, LORD, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
5that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
6We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
7Our 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.
8Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
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The words “with our fathers” make this confession communal: those praying acknowledge their own guilt within the history of the people they belong to.
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Nehemiah 1:6let your ear now be attentive and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for …Both prayers confess Israel's sin with language that includes the person praying among those who have sinned.
Nehemiah 9:16“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,Both passages acknowledge the fathers' wrongdoing, with Nehemiah naming their pride and refusal to hear God's commandments.
1 Kings 8:47yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, …Both passages use a shared confession of sin and wickedness, with Kings placing these words in a prayer of repentance.
Psalm 78:8and 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 …Both psalms acknowledge the fathers' sin; Psalm 78 expresses the hope that another generation will avoid their rebellion.
Daniel 9:5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.Both prayers repeat the admission of shared wrongdoing, with Daniel naming rebellion against God's commands.
1 Samuel 7:6They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the LORD.” …Both passages contain a confession spoken as a people, with Samuel describing Israel gathered before the LORD at Mizpah.
Nehemiah 9:33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.Both prayers admit shared wickedness, while Nehemiah also declares that God has been just in his dealings with his people.
Nehemiah 9:32–34Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you …Both passages speak to God from within a people's shared history and name their fathers.
Ezra 9:6–7and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up …Both prayers acknowledge shared guilt, with Ezra expressing shame at the extent of the people's iniquities.
Leviticus 26:40“‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked …Both texts join confession of present sin with acknowledgment of the fathers' iniquity before God.
Jeremiah 44:17But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we …Both name conduct shared with their fathers; the psalm confesses sin, while Jeremiah records a resolve to continue burning incense.
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These words belong within a prayer for God's favor. Confession has a place in approaching him; the surrounding verses tell of God saving for his name’s sake.
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