Jeremiah 2:2
2:2 “Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem:
‘This is what the
Lord says: “I have fond memories of you,
how devoted you were to me in your early years.
I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.
Ezra 9:7
9:7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and
priests, have been delivered over by the local kings
to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment – right up to the present time.
Nehemiah 9:32-34
9:32 “So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity – do not regard as inconsequential all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!
9:33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!
9:34 Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law. They have not paid attention to your commandments or your testimonies by which you have solemnly admonished them.
Psalms 106:7
106:7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds,
they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love,
and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.
Isaiah 48:8
48:8 You did not hear,
you do not know,
you were not told beforehand.
For I know that you are very deceitful;
you were labeled a rebel from birth.
Lamentations 5:7
5:7 Our forefathers sinned and are dead,
but we suffer their punishment.
Daniel 9:6-9
9:6 We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority
to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors,
and to all the inhabitants
of the land as well.
9:7 “You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day – the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.
9:8 O LORD, we have been humiliated – our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you.
9:9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.