1 Samuel 7:6

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from hi...

And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned,...

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o...

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifo...

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanr...

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.