Ezr 9:6-7, 15, Neh 9:33-34, Jer 2:19, 3:6, 5:6, Dan 9:5-16 | 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.

Ezra 9:15

15 O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a ^gremnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our ^hguilt, ⁱfor none can stand before you because of this.”

Nehemiah 9:33-34

33 ^jYet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully ^kand we have acted wickedly. 34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.

Jeremiah 2:19

19 ^lYour evil will chastise you,
and ^myour apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and ⁿbitter
for ^oyou to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,

declares the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 3:6

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

6 The Lord said to me in the days of ^pKing Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, ^qhow she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there ^rplayed the whore?

Jeremiah 5:6

6 Therefore ^sa lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a ^twolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^uA leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their ^vapostasies are great.

Daniel 9:5-16

5 ^wwe have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly ^xand rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 ^yWe have not listened to ^zyour servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ^aaour kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, ^abO Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, ^acthose who are near and ^adthose who are far away, in ^aeall the lands to which you have driven them, because of ^afthe treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because ^agwe have sinned against you. 9 ^ahTo the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 ^aiand have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by ^ajhis servants the prophets. 11 ^akAll Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, ^alrefusing to obey your voice. ^amAnd the curse and oath ^anthat are written in the Law of ^aoMoses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because ^apwe have sinned against him. 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against ^aqour rulers who ruled us, ^{▼▼Or our judges who judged us} by ^asbringing upon us a great calamity. ^atFor under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 13 ^auAs it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, ^avturning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. 14 ^awTherefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, ^axfor the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and ^aywe have not obeyed his voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt ^azwith a mighty hand, and ^bahave made a name for yourself, as at this day, ^bbwe have sinned, we have done wickedly.

16 “O Lord, ^bcaccording to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, ^bdyour holy hill, ^bebecause for our sins, and for ^bfthe iniquities of our fathers, ^bgJerusalem and your people have become ^bha byword among all who are around us.