Ezra 9:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the inhabitants of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

1 Kings 8:47

and they have a change of heart in the land of their captivity and they turn and entreat you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked’;

2 Chronicles 28:9

In Samaria there was a prophet of the Lord by the name of Oded. He went out to meet the army returning to Samaria and said to them: “It was because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah that he delivered them into your power. You, however, have killed them with a fury that has reached up to heaven.

Ezra 9:13

“After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and our great guilt—though you, our God, have made less of our sinfulness than it deserved and have allowed us to survive as we do—

Ezra 9:15

Lord, God of Israel, you are just; yet we have been spared, the remnant we are today. Here we are before you in our sins. Because of all this, we can no longer stand in your presence.”

Nehemiah 1:6

May your ears be attentive, and your eyes open, to hear the prayer that I, your servant, now offer in your presence day and night for your servants the Israelites, confessing the sins we have committed against you, I and my ancestral house included.

Job 40:4

Look, I am of little account; what can I answer you? I put my hand over my mouth.

Job 42:6

Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes. Job’s Restoration.

Psalm 38:4

There is no wholesomeness in my flesh because of your anger; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 38:5

My iniquities overwhelm me, a burden too heavy for me.

Exodus 32:31

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Ah, this people has committed a grave sin in making a god of gold for themselves!

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, they may become white as wool.

Isaiah 59:12

For our transgressions before you are many, our sins bear witness against us. Our transgressions are present to us, and our crimes we acknowledge:

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers were withheld, the spring rain did not fall. But because you have a prostitute’s brow, you refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 31:19

For after I turned away, I repented; after I came to myself, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, even humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.

Jeremiah 51:9

“We have tried to heal Babylon, but she cannot be healed. Leave her, each of us must go to our own land.” The judgment against her reaches the heavens, it touches the clouds.

Jeremiah 6:15

They have acted shamefully, committing abominations, yet they are not at all ashamed, they do not know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among the fallen; in the time of their punishment they shall stumble, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:12

They have acted shamefully; they have done abominable things, yet they are not at all ashamed, they do not know how to blush. Hence they shall be among those who fall; in their time of punishment they shall stumble, says the Lord.

Lamentations 3:42

We have rebelled and been obstinate; you have not forgiven us.

Ezekiel 16:63

that you may remember and be ashamed, and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, when I pardon you for all you have done—oracle of the Lord God.

Leviticus 26:40

They will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me,

Luke 15:21

His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’

Romans 6:21

But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Revelation 18:5

for her sins are piled up to the sky, and God remembers her crimes.