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 write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

His power and his wrath

When ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Thy hand will find out all thine enemies; Thy right hand will find out those that hate thee.

The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah.

But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.