Ezra 9:6 Cross References - NSB

⁶ I said, »O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face (praying) to you (being in your presence), my God: for our sins have increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

¹³ The men of Sodom were wicked and sinned greatly against Jehovah.

⁹ A prophet of Jehovah named Oded was there. He went to meet the army coming home to Samaria. He said: »Jehovah the God of your ancestors handed Judah over to you in his anger. You killed them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

¹³ »After all this and because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment that you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

¹⁵ »O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteousness is yours. We are only a small band that has been kept from death this day. See, we are before you in our sin. For no one may keep his place before you because of this.«

⁶ »Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.«

⁴ »I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I will put my hand over my mouth.

⁴ My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear.

¹⁸ »Come now, let us reason together (make things right) (correct matters) between us!« Says Jehovah. »Though your sins are like scarlet, they will become as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will become as white as wool.

¹² You are aware of our many rebellious acts. Our sins testify against us. Our rebellious acts are with us. We know our iniquities.

³ »Accordingly the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. Yet, you have the unashamed (conspicuous) (impudent) look of a prostitute, and you refuse to be ashamed.

²⁴ »Ever since we were young, the shameful worship of Baal has taken everything our ancestors worked for, their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters. ²⁵ »We must lie down in our shame and let our humiliation cover us. Ever since we were young, we and our fathers have sinned against Jehovah our God. We have not obeyed Jehovah our God.«

¹⁵ »Are they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They are not even ashamed! Not at all! They do not even know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I punish them, they will be cast down,« says Jehovah.

¹² »Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed! And they did not know how to blush. For that reason they will fall among those who fall. At the time of their punishment they will be brought down,« Says Jehovah.

¹⁹ »‘We turned away from you. But soon we wanted to return. After you had punished us we hung our heads in grief. We were ashamed and disgraced because we sinned when we were young.’«

⁶³ ‘»I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth.’ The Lord Jehovah has spoken.«

⁷ »O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. ⁸ »O Jehovah, to us belongs shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

²¹ »Father, the son said: ‘I have sinned against God and against you. I am not fit to be called your son.’

²¹ You are now ashamed of the fruit you had at that time. For the results of these things is death.

⁵ »For her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.