TSK · Nehemiah 1:6

But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today.

“Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the LORD our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the LORD’s dwelling place and rejected him.

The People Confess Their Sins While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites– men, women, and children alike– gathered around him. The people wept loudly.

Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said,“I will confess my rebellious acts to the LORD.” And then you forgave my sins.(Selah)

During the evening, morning, and noontime I will lament and moan, and he will hear me.

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”

Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?

I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way:“O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments,

O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you.

“So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.