Ezra 9:7

God's Word

From our ancestors’ days until now, we have been deep in guilt. Our kings and our priests have been handed over to foreign kings to be executed. We have been taken captive, robbed, and humiliated, as we still are today because of our sins.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:47

If they come to their senses, are sorry for what they’ve done, and plead with you in the land where they are captives, saying, ‘We have sinned. We have done wrong. We have been wicked,’

2 Chronicles 29:6

Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what the Lord our God considered evil. They deserted him. They turned away from the Lord’s tent  and turned their backs on him.

2 Chronicles 30:7

Don’t be like your ancestors and your relatives who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors. He made them something that shocks people, as you have seen.

2 Chronicles 34:24

‘This is what the Lord says: I’m going to bring disaster on this place and on the people living here according to the curses written in the book that was read to the king of Judah.

Ezra 9:13

“After all that has happened to us because of the evil things we have done and because of our overwhelming guilt, you, our God, have punished us far less than we deserve and have permitted a few of us to survive.

Nehemiah 9:30

You were patient with them for many years. You warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. However, they wouldn’t listen. So you handed them over to the people in the surrounding nations.

Isaiah 64:4

No one has ever heard, no one has paid attention, and no one has seen any god except you. You help those who wait for you.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.

Jeremiah 3:25

We must lie down in our shame and be covered by our disgrace. Ever since we were young, we and our ancestors have sinned against the Lord our God. We haven’t obeyed the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 32:23

They entered and took possession of it. However, they refused to obey you or to follow your teachings. They didn’t do anything you commanded them to do, so you brought all this disaster on them.

Jeremiah 32:32

“The people of Israel and Judah have made me furious because they are evil. The people, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, and the Judeans and those who live in Jerusalem

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the wicked and detestable things you did. That is why your land has become something ruined, destroyed, and cursed. No one lives in that land today.

Jeremiah 44:9

Have you forgotten the wicked things done by your ancestors, by the kings of Judah and their wives, and by you and your wives in Judah and on the streets of Jerusalem?

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, ⌞but⌟ we have to take the punishment for their wickedness.

Ezekiel 11:9

I will force you out of the city. I will hand you over to foreigners, and I will punish you.

Ezekiel 39:23

Then the nations will know that the people of Israel went into captivity because they did wrong and rebelled against me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies. They were killed in battle.

Numbers 32:14

“You’re just like your parents! You’re a bunch of sinners trying to make the Lord angry with Israel again.

1 Samuel 12:15

But if you don’t obey the Lord, if you rebel against what he says, then the Lord will be against you as he was against your ancestors.