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 not made use of any of these [rights]. And I am not writing these [things] in order that it may be thus with me. For [it would be] better to me rather to die than [for] anyone to deprive me of my reason for boasting.

For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I have not been put to shame, but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, thus also our boasting to Titus {has proven to be true}.

His power and his wrath

If you transgress the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded [to] you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, {Yahweh's anger will be kindled} against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you."

And he went out before Asa and said to him, "Hear me, O Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh [is] with you while you are with him. And if you will seek him he will be found by you. But if you forsake him he will forsake you.

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

The face of Yahweh [is] against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from [the] earth.

Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with [the] fear due you?

"I will surely destroy everything from the face of the earth"--a declaration of Yahweh.

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him."

For the eyes of the Lord [are] on the righteous, and his ears [are open to] their prayer. But the face of the Lord [is] against those who do evil.