and prayed:

“I am too ashamed(A) and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.(B)

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for her sins are piled up to heaven,(A)
    and God has remembered(B) her crimes.

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My guilt has overwhelmed(A) me
    like a burden too heavy to bear.(B)

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But a prophet of the Lord named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry(A) with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven.(B)

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Therefore I despise myself(A)
    and repent(B) in dust and ashes.”(C)

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21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.(A) I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

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21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!(A)

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“Lord, you are righteous,(A) but this day we are covered with shame(B)—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered(C) us because of our unfaithfulness(D) to you.(E) We and our kings, our princes and our ancestors are covered with shame, Lord, because we have sinned against you.(F)

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63 Then, when I make atonement(A) for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed(B) and never again open your mouth(C) because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.(D)’”

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19 After I strayed,(A)
    I repented;
after I came to understand,
    I beat(B) my breast.
I was ashamed(C) and humiliated
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’(D)

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12 Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
    No, they have no shame(A) at all;
    they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
    they will be brought down when they are punished,(B)
says the Lord.(C)

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15 Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
    No, they have no shame at all;
    they do not even know how to blush.(A)
So they will fall among the fallen;
    they will be brought down when I punish(B) them,”
says the Lord.

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24 From our youth shameful(A) gods have consumed
    the fruits of our ancestors’ labor—
their flocks and herds,
    their sons and daughters.
25 Let us lie down in our shame,(B)
    and let our disgrace cover us.
We have sinned(C) against the Lord our God,
    both we and our ancestors;(D)
from our youth(E) till this day
    we have not obeyed(F) the Lord our God.”

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Therefore the showers have been withheld,(A)
    and no spring rains(B) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen(C) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.(D)

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12 For our offenses(A) are many in your sight,
    and our sins testify(B) against us.
Our offenses are ever with us,
    and we acknowledge our iniquities:(C)

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18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”(A)
    says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;(B)
though they are red as crimson,
    they shall be like wool.(C)

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“I am unworthy(A)—how can I reply to you?
    I put my hand over my mouth.(B)

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15 Lord, the God of Israel, you are righteous!(A) We are left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can stand(B) in your presence.(C)

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13 “What has happened to us is a result of our evil(A) deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins deserved(B) and have given us a remnant like this.

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