Bible Verses About Remorse: General references

For my life is worn out with sorrow and my years with sighing; my strength gives out under my guilt, and my bones are wasting away.

for your arrows penetrate me deeply, and your hand is pressing me down.

Your indignation left no part of me intact; my sin made my whole body sick;

for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.

I have stinking, festering wounds because of my foolishness.

I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long.

For the leader. A psalm of David, when Natan the prophet came to him after his affair with Bat-Sheva: God, in your grace, have mercy on me; in your great compassion, blot out my crimes.

Wash me completely from my guilt, and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my crimes, my sin confronts me all the time.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil from your perspective; so that you are right in accusing me and justified in passing sentence.

Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Let me hear the sound of joy and gladness, so that the bones you crushed can rejoice.

Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all my crimes.

Create in me a clean heart, God; renew in me a resolute spirit.

Don't thrust me away from your presence, don't take your Ruach Kodesh away from me.

Restore my joy in your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me.

Then I will teach the wicked your ways, and sinners will return to you.

Rescue me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation! Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness

Adonai, open my lips; then my mouth will praise you.

For you don't want sacrifices, or I would give them; you don't take pleasure in burnt offerings.

My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God, you won't spurn a broken, chastened heart.

but instead you neglected my counsel and would not accept my reproof;

I, in turn, will laugh at your distress, and mock when terror comes over you

yes, when terror overtakes you like a storm and your disaster approaches like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble assail you.

So now, children, listen to me; don't turn away from what I am saying: