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Ezra’s Prayer

I said:

My God, I am ashamed and too embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, because our sinful deeds[a] have risen above our heads, and our guilt is so great that it reaches to the heavens.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 9:6 The Hebrew uses two different words for guilt in this prayer. One is rendered sinful deeds.