Ezra 9:15

Modern English Version

O  Lord God of Israel, You are righteous, for we who escaped exile yet remain to this very day. Behold, we stand before You in our guilt, for we should not stand before You because of this.”

Cross References

Ezra 1:4

Whoever remains in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, gold, goods, and animals, along with voluntary gifts for the house of God in Jerusalem.”

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 have expanded over our heads and our wrongdoing has grown up to the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:8

and found his heart faithful before You. And You made a covenant with him to give him the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites—to give it to his seed. Indeed, You have fulfilled Your words because You are righteous.

Psalm 116:5

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.

Psalm 119:137

Righteous are You, O  Lord, and upright are Your judgments.

Psalm 130:3

If you, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is righteous.

Psalm 76:7

But You indeed are to be feared; who may stand in Your presence once You are angry?

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O  Lord, that I plead with You. Indeed, let me talk with You about matters of justice. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

Ezekiel 33:10

Therefore as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have spoken, saying, “Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them. How should we then live?”

Ezekiel 7:16

Even when their survivors escape, they shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one over his iniquity.

Daniel 9:14

Therefore, the Lord has kept the disaster in store and brought it upon us. For the Lord our God is righteous in all His works which He does, but we have not obeyed His voice.

Leviticus 26:40

But if they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their treachery that they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary to Me,

Leviticus 26:41

and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

John 8:21

Again, Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and you will die in your sins. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

John 8:24

Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

Romans 10:3

For, being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced, and all the world may become accountable to God.

1 Corinthians 15:17

If Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

Joshua 22:15

They came to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said to them,