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 rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrassed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth.

His power and his wrath

If you break the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and go and worship other gods, and bow down to them, the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly disappear from this good land He has given you.”

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.

Your hand will capture all your enemies;
your right hand will seize those who hate you.

The face of the Lord is set
against those who do what is evil,
to erase all memory of them from the earth.

Who understands the power of Your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.

I will completely sweep away everything
from the face of the earth—
this is the Lord’s declaration.

But My righteous one

will live by faith;

and if he draws back,
I have no pleasure in him.

because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and His ears are open to their request.
But the face of the Lord is against
those who do what is evil.