Ezra 9:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Chr 28:9 : 9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
  • Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • Ezra 9:13 : 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this;
  • Ezra 9:15 : 15 O LORD God of Israel, You are righteous, for we remain yet as escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before You in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before You because of this.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Isa 59:12 : 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
  • Jer 3:24-25 : 24 For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
  • Jer 6:15 : 15 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 who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 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 fall: when I punish them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 31:19 : 19 Surely, after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.
  • Dan 9:7-8 : 7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You. 8 O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
  • Luke 15:21 : 21 And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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  • Dan 9:7-9
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    7O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.

    8O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

    9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him;

  • Ezra 9:3-5
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    3And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my mantle, and pulled out the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished.

    4Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away; and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.

    5And at the evening sacrifice I arose from my heaviness, and having torn my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Dan 9:15-20
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    15And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

    16O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I plead with You, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all around us.

    17Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

    18O my God, incline Your ear, and hear; open Your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name: for we do not present our supplications before You for our righteousness, but for Your great mercies.

    19O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act; do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God: for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.

    20And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;

  • Jer 3:25
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    25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

  • Neh 1:4-7
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    4And it happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

    5And said, I beg you, O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy for those that love Him and observe His commandments:

    6Let Your ear now be attentive, and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant, which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against You: both I and my father's house have sinned.

    7We have dealt very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which You commanded Your servant Moses.

  • Dan 9:3-5
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    3And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes:

    4And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps the covenant and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

    5We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments:

  • Ezra 9:13
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    13And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this;

  • Dan 9:12-13
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    12And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

  • Ezra 9:10
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    10And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments,

  • Neh 9:32-33
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    32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy, do not let all the hardship seem little before You that has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our forefathers, and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

    33However, You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have done right, but we have acted wickedly.

  • Ezra 8:22
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    22For I was ashamed to request from the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek him; but his power and his wrath are against all who forsake him.

  • Ezra 9:15
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    15O LORD God of Israel, You are righteous, for we remain yet as escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before You in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before You because of this.

  • Isa 59:12
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    12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

  • Ps 44:15
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    15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

  • Ps 51:9
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    9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Neh 9:2
    72%

    2The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

  • Jer 14:7
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    7O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

  • Ezra 10:1
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    1Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and laying himself down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

  • Lam 3:41-42
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    41Let us lift up our heart along with our hands to God in the heavens.

    42We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

  • Lam 5:16
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    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

  • Ps 69:7
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    7Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

  • Neh 5:9
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    9Also I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

  • Isa 64:7
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    7And there is none who calls upon your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.

  • Ps 32:5
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    5I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

  • Ps 123:3
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    3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

  • Job 42:6
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    6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

  • Jer 51:51
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    51We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces; for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

  • Ps 65:3
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    3Iniquities prevail against me; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.