Ezra 8:22

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Summary

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

I was ashamed

1 Corinthians 9:15

2 Corinthians 7:14

His power and his wrath

Bible References

I was ashamed

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.

For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.

His power and his wrath

When you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which He has given you.”

and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Your hand will find out all your enemies;
Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Who understands the power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

“I will completely remove all things
From the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

But My righteous one shall live by faith;

And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

“For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
And His ears attend to their prayer,
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”