Treasury of Scripture
drew water Grottius says, that the pouring out of water means the shedding of tears; and the Targum reads, `And they poured out their hearts in penitence, as waters, before the Lord.' Others suppose that it was done emblematically, to represent the contrition of their hearts, and their desire to wash away their past offences. But some learned men conceive that it was poured out as a libation, in token of joy, after they had fasted and confessed their sin, as they were wont to do in the feast of tabernacles. (See note on Nu.
29:35).
1 Samuel 1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink...
2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person...
Job 16:20 My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God.
Psalm 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
Psalm 119:136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears...
Lamentations 2:11,18 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people...
Lamentations 3:49 My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
fasted
2 Chronicles 20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Ezra 8:21-23 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God...
Nehemiah 9:1-3 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloths...
Daniel 9:3-5 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes...
Joel 2:12 Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Jonah 3:1-10 And the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying...
We have sinned
Leviticus 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me...
Judges 10:10 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against you, both because we have forsaken our God...
1 Kings 8:47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent...
Ezra 9:5-10 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell on my knees...
Job 33:27 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth.
Job 42:6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalm 38:3-8 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin...
Psalm 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Jeremiah 3:13,14 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God...
Jeremiah 31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded...
Luke 15:18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,
judged
Judges 3:10 And the Spirit of the LORD came on him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war...
Nehemiah 9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you...
Ezekiel 20:4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
