(4) Prayer of the prisoner.

Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel which they offer in this place. Listen from your heavenly dwelling and grant pardon. «If a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath sanctioned by a curse, when he comes and takes the oath before your altar in this temple, listen in heaven; take action and pass judgment on your servants. Condemn the wicked and punish him for his conduct, but acquit the just and establish his innocence. (1 Kin 8:30-32)

Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God, for to You I pray. (Ps 5:2)

Turn to me and be gracious to me, For I am lonely and afflicted. (Ps 25:16)

For my life is spent with sorrow and my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my iniquity, and my body has wasted away. (Ps 31:10)

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. (Ps 51:2-3)

Hear, O LORD, for you are a God of mercy; and have mercy on us, who have sinned against you: for you are enthroned forever, while we are perishing forever. (Bar 3:2-3)

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,” they are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; there is no one who does good. (Ps 53:1)

Every proud man is an abomination to the LORD; I assure you that he will not go unpunished. By kindness and piety guilt is expiated, and by the fear of the LORD man avoids evil. (Prov 16:5-6)

But as for the seed that fell on rich soil, they are the ones who, when they have heard the word, embrace it with a generous and good heart, and bear fruit through perseverance. (Luke 8:15)

He has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without men’s ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done. (Eccl 3:11)