Ezra 9:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.

For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'

that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD."

To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.

But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Our iniquities

Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

"Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

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

Grown up

But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, "Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.

And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

General references

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.