Ezr 9:6-11, Neh 9:33, Lam 1:8, 4:13, Eze 8:17-18, 9:9, 22:25-31 | ESV | STEP | saying : O my God , I am ashamed and blush 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 .

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“O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities ^ahave risen higher than our heads, and our ^bguilt has ^cmounted up to the heavens. 7 ^dFrom the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great ^eguilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, ^fand to utter shame, as it is today. 8 But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a ^gremnant and to give us a ^hsecure hold ^{▼▼Hebrew nail, or tent-pin} within his holy place, that our God may ^jbrighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery. 9 ^kFor we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, ^lbut has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection ^{▼▼Hebrew a wall} in Judea and Jerusalem.

10 “And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, 11 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with ⁿtheir uncleanness.

Nehemiah 9:33

33 ^oYet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully ^pand we have acted wickedly.

Lamentations 1:8

8 ^qJerusalem sinned grievously;
therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
^rfor they have seen her nakedness;
she herself ^sgroans
and turns her face away.

Lamentations 4:13

13 This was for ^tthe sins of her prophets
and ^uthe iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O ^vson of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit ^wthe abominations that they commit here, that ^xthey should fill the land with violence and ^yprovoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their ^{▼▼Or my} nose. 18 Therefore ^aaI will act in wrath. ^abMy eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. ^acAnd though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

Ezekiel 9:9

9 Then he said to me, ^ad“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. ^aeThe land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For ^afthey say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Ezekiel 22:25-31

25 ^agThe conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is ^ahlike a roaring lion ^aitearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 ^ajHer priests ^akhave done violence to my law and ^alhave profaned my holy things. ^amThey have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and ^anthey have disregarded my Sabbaths, ^aoso that I am profaned among them. 27 ^apHer princes in her midst are like wolves ^aqtearing the prey, ^arshedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And ^asher prophets have smeared whitewash for them, ^atseeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land ^auhave practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and ^avhave extorted from the sojourner without justice. 30 ^awAnd I sought for a man among them ^axwho should build up the wall ^ayand stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore ^azI have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned ^batheir way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”