1 Esdras 8:75-77

Revised Standard Version

⁷⁵ For our sins have risen higher than our heads, and our mistakes have mounted up to heaven ⁷⁶ from the times of our fathers, and we are in great sin to this day. ⁷⁷ And because of our sins and the sins of our fathers we with our brethren and our kings and our priests were given over to the kings of the earth, to the sword and captivity and plundering, in shame until this day.