Nehemiah 1:6

may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed ¹  against you – both I myself and my family ²  have sinned.

1Sa 15:11; 1Ki 8:28,29; 2Ch 6:40; 2Ch 28:10; 2Ch 29:6; Ezr 9:6,7; Ezr 10:11; Ps 32:5; Ps 34:15; Ps 55:17; Ps 88:1; Ps 106:6; Ps 130:2; Isa 6:5; Isa 64:6,7; La 3:39-42; La 5:7; Da 9:4,20; Da 9:17,18; Lu 2:37; Lu 18:7; Eph 2:3; 1Ti 5:5; 2Ti 1:3; 1Jo 1:9

¹ tn Heb “have sinned.” For stylistic reasons – to avoid redundancy in English – this was translated as “committed.”

² tn Heb “the house of my father.”