Remorse: General Scriptures Concerning

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Verses

22 references
  1. For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
  2. For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me. …
  3. For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. …
  4. Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. …
  5. …because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, …
  6. So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth. …
  7. The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
  8. Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
  9. They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
  10. Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
  11. “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
  12. But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
  13. “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
  14. See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
  15. The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity. …
  16. Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
  17. Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
  18. Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’
  19. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
  20. When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
  21. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
  22. Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.