Verse 8

Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 142:6 : 6 Listen to my cry for help, for I am in serious trouble! Rescue me from those who chase me, for they are stronger than I am.
  • Isa 64:9 : 9 LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!
  • Ps 116:6 : 6 The LORD protects the untrained; I was in serious trouble and he delivered me.
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The resident foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
  • Ps 21:3 : 3 For you bring him rich blessings; you place a golden crown on his head.
  • Ps 25:7 : 7 Do not hold against me the sins of my youth or my rebellious acts! Because you are faithful to me, extend to me your favor, O LORD!
  • Ps 69:16-17 : 16 Answer me, O LORD, for your loyal love is good! Because of your great compassion, turn toward me! 17 Do not ignore your servant, for I am in trouble! Answer me right away!
  • Ps 106:43 : 43 Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”
  • Exod 32:34 : 34 So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.”
  • Ezek 2:3 : 3 He said to me,“Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day.
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt.
  • Hos 9:9 : 9 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.
  • Matt 23:32-36 : 32 Fill up then the measure of your ancestors! 33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 “For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, 35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things!
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?