Ezra 9:6 BSB — MannaFest

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 are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

BSB

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ASV

and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.

KJV

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I am ashamed and blush - God had been so often provoked, and had so often pardoned them, and they had continued to transgress, that he was ashamed to go back again to the throne of grace to ask for mercy in their behalf. This is the genuine feeling of every reawakened backslider.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Our - He includes himself in the number of the transgressors, because he himself was guilty of many sins; and because the princes and priests, and so many of the people having done this, the guilt was now become national.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"Iniquity has grown up to such a height among us that it reaches to the heavens, so very impudent that it dares heaven, so very provoking that, like the sin of Sodom, it cries to heaven for vengeance." But let this be the comfort of true penitents that though their sins reach to the heavens God's mercy is in the heavens, Ps. xxxvi. Where sin abounds grace will much more abound.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The consideration of our covenant-relation to God as ours will help to humble us, and break our hearts for sin, that we should violate both his precepts to us and our promises to him; it will also encourage us to hope for pardon upon repentance. "He is my God, notwithstanding this;" and every transgression in the covenant does not throw us out of covenant.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאֹמְרָ֗ה	va.'o.me.Rah	and I said !	H559 →
אֱלֹהַי֙	'e.lo.Hai	O God my	H430 →
בֹּ֣שְׁתִּי	Bo.she.ti	I am ashamed	H954 →
וְנִכְלַ֔מְתִּי	ve.nikh.Lam.ti	and I am humiliated	H3637 →
לְהָרִ֧ים	le.ha.Rim	to lift up	H7311 →
אֱלֹהַ֛י	'e.lo.Hai	O God my	H430 →
פָּנַ֖י	pa.Nai	face my	H6440 →
אֵלֶ֑יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
עֲוֹנֹתֵ֤ינוּ	'a.vo.no.Tei.nu	iniquities our	H5771 →
רָבוּ֙	ra.Vu	they have increased	H7235 →
לְמַ֣עְלָה	le.Ma'.lah	<to> upwards <towards>	H4605 →
רֹּ֔אשׁ	Rosh	a head	H7218 →
וְאַשְׁמָתֵ֥נוּ	ve.'ash.ma.Te.nu	and guilt our	H819 →
גָדְלָ֖ה	ga.de.Lah	it is great	H1431 →
עַ֥ד	'ad	to	H5704 →
לַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃	la.sha.Ma.yim	<to> the heavens	H8064 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
leads to
- Psalms 40:12
  For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
- Matthew 11:28
  Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Through
Luke 15:21
The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
leads to
- Psalms 51:4
  Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
- Luke 15:18–19
  I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Through
Revelation 18:5
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
leads to
- Genesis 18:20–21
  Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
- Revelation 16:19
  The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His…
- Jeremiah 51:9
  “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
Through
Ezra 9:15
O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
leads to
- Psalms 130:3
  If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Ezra

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezra