And I said: “O my God, I am too (A)ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for (B)our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has (C)grown up to the heavens.

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and prayed:

“I am too ashamed(A) and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.(B)

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Since the days of our fathers to this day (A)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities (B)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the (C)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to (D)humiliation,[a] as it is this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 9:7 Lit. shame of faces

From the days of our ancestors(A) until now, our guilt has been great. Because of our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been subjected to the sword(B) and captivity,(C) to pillage and humiliation(D) at the hand of foreign kings, as it is today.

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