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. Do to us what you think is good and appropriate.

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

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

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

Judah replied, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! 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 no one can really stand before you.”