We Have Sinned

And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein We have done foolishly, and wherein We have sinned.

And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, We be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for We have sinned.

• Conviction
• Moses
• Intercession

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for We have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, We will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because We have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, We pray thee, this day.

• Fasting

And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because We have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and We will serve thee.

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, We have committed wickedness;

Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, We have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which We have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, We have done wickedly.

• Self-will

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom We have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for We have sinned: in those is continuance, and We shall be saved.

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for We have sinned against the LORD our God, We and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

Why do We sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because We have sinned against the LORD.

O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; We have sinned against thee.

We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for We have sinned against thee.

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

• Punishment

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and We have borne their iniquities.

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that We have sinned!

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because We have sinned against thee.

Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because We have sinned against him.

And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; We have sinned, We have done wickedly.

• Truth

If We say that We have not sinned, We make him a liar, and his word is not in us.