Ezra 9:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

O Lord, God of Israel, you are just, but we have escaped as a remnant, as is now the case. Here we are before you in our guilt, though no one can face you because of this.”

Cross References

Psalm 130:3

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

John 8:24

I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.”

Romans 3:19

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

John 8:21

Again he said to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

Romans 10:3

Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

Daniel 9:14

So the Lord kept watch over this calamity until he brought it upon us. Indeed, the Lord our God is right in all that he has done, for we have disobeyed his voice.

Ezekiel 33:10

Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have said: “Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?”

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

1 Corinthians 15:17

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins.

Ezra 9:6

and said, “O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Psalm 76:7

But you indeed are awesome! Who can stand before you when your anger is roused?

Psalm 116:5

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

Psalm 119:137

You are righteous, O Lord, and your judgments are right.

Ezekiel 7:16

If any survivors escape, they shall be found on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning over their iniquity.

Leviticus 26:40

“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors—their treachery against me and also their continued hostility to me,

Leviticus 26:41

so that I in turn was hostile to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if, then, their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

Joshua 22:15

They came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,

Ezra 1:4

And let all survivors in whatever place they reside be assisted by the people of their place with silver and gold, with goods, and with livestock, besides freewill offerings for the house of God in Jerusalem.”

Nehemiah 9:8

and you found his heart faithful before you and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.