Prayer of Confession from Psalms

[Yosef ben Avraham]

My eyes are ever toward Adonai. (Psalm 25:15) For you are G-d, my deliverer; it is you I look to at all times. (Psalm 25:5) Adonai, be mindful of your compassion and your faithfulness; they are old as time. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to your mercy, remember me, in light of your goodness, Adonai. (Psalm 25:7) Good and upright is Adonai; therefore He shows sinners the way. He will guide the humble to justice; he will teach the humble his way. All the paths of Adonai are mercy and truth to those keeping his covenant and his decrees. For the sake of your name, Adonai, forgive my sin, for it is great. (Psalm 25:8-11) Adonai, hear. Adonai, forgive. (Daniel 9:19) As it is said: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) Adonai is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works. Adonai is near to all who call upon him, to all those who call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him; and he will hear their cry, and will save them. (Psalm 145:17-19)

 

O you that hear prayer, to you all flesh come. (Psalm 65:2) Attend to the voice of my cry, my King and my G-d; for I will pray to you. (Psalm 5:2) Adonai, hear my prayer, let my cry come before you. (Psalm 102:2) You are my help and my deliverer; O my G-d, do not delay. (Psalm 40:17)

 

Hear me, O Adonai, for your mercy is good. (Psalm 69:17) Have mercy on me, O G-d, according to your mercy; according to the multitude of your compassions, blot out my transgressions. (Psalm 51:3) Wash me completely from my iniquity, and purify me of my sin; for I recognise my transgressions, and am ever conscious of my sin. (Psalm 51:4-5)

 

Confess Your Sins, then say:

 

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; so you are just in your sentence, and right in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psalm 51:6-7) Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. (Psalm 51:9) Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create a clean heart for me, O G-d; and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of your salvation; and let a willing spirit uphold me. Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall return unto you. (Psalm 51:11-15)

 

O Adonai, open you my lips; and my mouth shall declare your praise. (Psalm 51:17).

 

Who is a G-d like unto you, that pardons the iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retains not His anger for ever, because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Ya’aqov, mercy to Avraham, as you have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. (Micah 7:18-20) For Adonai your G-d is a merciful G-d; He will not fail you, neither destroys you, nor forgets the covenant of your fathers which He swore unto them. (Deuteronomy 4:31)  And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Adonai their G-d. But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their G-d: I am Adonai. (Leviticus 26:44-45)  Then will I remember My covenant with Ya’aqov, and also My covenant with Yitz’chak, and also My covenant with Avraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. (Leviticus 26:42) Remember Avraham, Yitz’chak, and Is’rael, your servants, to whom you did swear by your own self, and said unto them: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. (Exodus 32:13) Remember your congregation, which you have gotten of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; and mount Zion, where you have dwelt. (Psalm 74:2) Save your people, and bless your inheritance; and tend them, and carry them forever. (Psalm 28:9) Blessed be Adonai for evermore. Amen, and Amen. (Psalm 89:52)