Ezra 9:15
O Yahweh, God of Israel, righteous thou art, for we have had left us a deliverance as at this day,—here we are, before thee, in our guilty deeds, for there is no standing before thee, because of this thing!
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Leviticus 26:40Then shall they confess their iniquity, And the iniquity of their fathers, In their unfaithfulness wherewith they had been unfaithful towards me; Yea moreover, because they had gone in opposition to me,
Joshua 22:15So they came in unto the sons of Reuben and unto the sons of Gad and unto the half tribe of Manasseh, within the land of Gilead,—and spake with them, saying:
Nehemiah 9:8and didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst solemnize with him a covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite,—to give it unto his seed,—and didst confirm thy words, for, righteous, thou art.
Job 9:2Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
Psalms 130:3If, iniquities, thou shouldest mark, O Yah, O My Lord, who could stand?
Isaiah 64:6But we have become as one unclean all of us, And, as a garment polluted, were all our righteous doings,—And so we faded like a leaf all of us, And, our iniquity, as a wind, carried us away;
Matthew Henry on Ezra 9:6-15
5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God, 6 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. 7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of… Read the whole commentary →