Psalm 38:5
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5 My iniquities overwhelm me,
a burden too heavy for me.(A)
Psalm 38:11
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11 My heart shudders, my strength forsakes me;
the very light of my eyes has failed.(A)
Ezra 9:6
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A Penitential Prayer. 6 [a](A)I said: “My God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to raise my face to you, my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.
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- 9:6–15 The prayer attributed to Ezra is a communal confession of sin, of a kind characteristic of the Second Temple period (cf. Neh 9:6–37; Dn 9:4–19; 1QS 1:4–2:1), but adapted to the present situation.
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