Exodus 32:31
31So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, athis people has sinned a great sin. They have bmade for themselves gods of gold.Deuteronomy 9:15
15 cSo I turned and came down from the mountain, and dthe mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.Deuteronomy 9:25
25 e“So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.1 Samuel 15:35
35 fAnd Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, gbut Samuel grieved over Saul. hAnd the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.Ezra 9:3
3As soon as I heard this, I itore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and jsat appalled.Ezra 10:1
The People Confess Their Sin
1 kWhile Ezra prayed and lmade confession, weeping and mcasting himself down nbefore the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.Psalms 119:136
136My eyes oshed streams of tears,because people pdo not keep your law.
2 Corinthians 2:1-4
1For I made up my mind qnot to make another painful visit to you. 2For rif I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? 3And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, sfor I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. 4For tI wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
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