Ezra 9:6

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Summary

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

I am ashamed

Our iniquities

Grown up

2 Chronicles 28:9

Luke 15:21

Revelation 18:5

General references

Psalm 106:6

Bible References

I am ashamed

Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed.

Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.

Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth.

that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.

What fruit therefore had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of them is death.

Our iniquities

And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and our iniquities, we know them:

Grown up

But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because Jehovah the God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he gave them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.

General references

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.