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 vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand over my mouth.

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

Therefore the rain has been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and thou dost have a whore's forehead, thou dost refuse to be ashamed.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore, they shall fall among those that shall fall: at the time that I visit them they shall fall, saith the LORD.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those that should fall: when I visit them, they shall fall, saith the LORD.

Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, and even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, said the Lord GOD.

O Lord, the righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us the 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 through all the lands where thou hast driven them because of their rebellion with which they have rebelled against thee.

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

Our iniquities

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

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

Then come, shall the LORD say, and we shall be even; if your sins were as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow; if they were red like crimson, they shall become as wool.

For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us; for our iniquities are with us; and we know our sins:

Grown up

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

And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight and am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

For her sins have reached unto the heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

General references

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