(Can we also experience that sorrow like the
LORD’s sorrow, when we have sinned against him? Can we
have godly sorrow?)
Psalms 51:17 The
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a
broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not
despise.
Isaiah 66:2b
but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor
and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
II Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his
God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his
fathers,
Joel 2:12 Therefore
also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even
to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with
weeping, and with mourning:
(Can we have godly sorrow? Yes,
absolutely! So, what is that godly sorrow
like?)
Psalms 6:6 I am
weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to
swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7a Mine eye
is consumed because of grief;
Psalms 13:2b having sorrow in my
heart daily
Psalms 31:9s Have
mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is
consumed with grief,
Psalms 38:6 I am
troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the
day long.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Psalms 42:3a My
tears have been my meat day and night,
Psalms 69:10 When I
wept, and chastened my soul with
fasting, that was to my reproach.
29a But I am poor and sorrowful:
Psalms 73:21a Thus
my heart was grieved,
Psalms 88:9 Mine eye
mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto
thee.
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep
not thy law.
Proverbs 15:13b
but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Ecclesiastes 7:3b
for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is
made better.
Matthew 26:75 And
Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him,
Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he
went out, and wept bitterly.
Luke 7:38a And stood
at his feet behind him weeping,
James 4:9a Be
afflicted, and mourn, and weep:
(Like those who sighed and cried for the
abominations, Lot also vexed his soul, and was called
godly – this is godly sorrow:)
Ezekiel 9:4 And the
LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the
foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
II Peter 2:7 And
delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation
of the wicked:
8 (For that
righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and
hearing, vexed his righteous soul from
day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The Lord
knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and
to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
punished:
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