Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, “Here we are; we are your slaves.”

So now we are in your power. ¹  Do to us what you think is good and appropriate. ² 

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. ¹  Say, ²  ‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

And early ¹  in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, ²  saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, ³  for we have sinned.” ⁴ 

All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! ¹ 

Judah replied, “What can we say ¹  to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? ²  God has exposed the sin of your servants! ³  We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

O Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt ¹  no one can really stand before you.”