Ezra 9:6 “and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face t…”

Ezra 9:6

and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

American Standard Version

and I 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 guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

Geneva Bible 1599

And said, O my God, I am confounded and ashamed, to lift vp mine eyes vnto thee my God: for our iniquities are increased ouer our head, and our trespasse is growen vp vnto the heauen.

Darby Translation

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 to the heavens.

Young's Literal Translation

and say, 'O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens.

Bible in Basic English

I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

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Cross references

“I am ashamed”

Job 42:6 Job 40:4 Jeremiah 3:3 Jeremiah 6:15 Jeremiah 8:12 Jeremiah 31:19

Job 42:6 · BSB

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 40:4 · BSB

“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

Jeremiah 3:3 · BSB

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 6:15 · BSB

Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:12 · BSB

Jeremiah 31:19 · BSB

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

“our iniquities”

Psalm 38:4 Genesis 13:13 Isaiah 1:18 Isaiah 59:12

Psalm 38:4 · BSB

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

Genesis 13:13 · BSB

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Isaiah 1:18 · BSB

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

Isaiah 59:12 · BSB

For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

“grown up”

Revelation 18:5 2 Chronicles 28:9 Luke 15:21

Revelation 18:5 · BSB

For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

2 Chronicles 28:9 · BSB

But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered th…

Luke 15:21 · BSB

The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. ’

Also

Ezra 9:15 Ezra 9:13

Ezra 9:15 · BSB

O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”

Ezra 9:13 · BSB

After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

7From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

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