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

"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.

Are they ashamed because they have done such shameful things? No, they are not at all ashamed. They do not even know how to blush! So they will die, just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them," says the Lord.

Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things? No, they are not at all ashamed! They do not even know how to blush! So they will die just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them, says the Lord.

For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses we beat our breasts in sorrow. We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.'

Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent when I make atonement for all you have done, declares the sovereign Lord.'"

"You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day -- the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Our iniquities

(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)

For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.

Come, let's consider your options," says the Lord. "Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.

For you are aware of our many rebellious deeds, and our sins testify against us; indeed, we are aware of our rebellious deeds; we know our sins all too well.

Grown up

Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: "Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice.

Then his son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

General references

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.