Ezra 9:6

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Revelation 18:5

For her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Psalm 38:4

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

2 Chronicles 28:9

And there was a prophet there whose name was Oded, and he went out to the army as it approached Samaria and said to them, “Behold, the anger of the Lord God of your fathers is against Judah, and He gave them into your hand, and you all have killed them in a rage that has reached even to heaven.

Luke 15:21

“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

Job 42:6

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Ezra 9:15

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.”

Romans 6:21

What fruit did you have then from the things of which you are now ashamed? The result of those things is death.

Ezekiel 16:63

in order that you may remember, and be humiliated, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord God.

Jeremiah 31:19

Surely after I turned back, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself on my thigh; I was ashamed and even humiliated because I bore the reproach of my youth.”

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? They were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; in the time of their punishment they will be cast down, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? They were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them they shall be cast down, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. And you had a harlot’s forehead; you refused to be ashamed.

Isaiah 59:12

For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us. And as for our iniquities, we know them:

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Job 40:4

“Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer You? I will lay my hand over my mouth.

Ezra 9:13

“After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this,

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the Lord.

Luke 18:13

“But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but struck his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner.’

1 Kings 8:47

yet when they come to their senses while in the land where they were carried captives and repent and make supplication to You, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and have committed wickedness,’

Jeremiah 51:9

We applied healing to Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up even to the skies.

Exodus 32:31

Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, this people has committed a great sin and have made a god of gold for themselves.

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,

Nehemiah 1:6

Let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant, which I pray before You now, day and night, for the Israelites Your servants, and confess the sins of the Israelites, which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.

Psalm 38:5

My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness.

Lamentations 3:42

We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.