26 “As the thief is ashamed when he is found out,
So is the house of Israel ashamed;
They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their (A)prophets,

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32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—(A)they, their kings, their princes, their priests, (B)their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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32 “Now therefore, our God,
The great, the (A)mighty, and awesome God,
Who keeps covenant and mercy:
Do not let all the [a]trouble seem small before You
That has come upon us,
Our kings and our princes,
Our priests and our prophets,
Our fathers and on all Your people,
(B)From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
33 However (C)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (D)we have done wickedly.
34 Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:32 hardship

Since the days of our fathers to this day (A)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities (B)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the (C)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to (D)humiliation,[a] as it is this day.

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  1. Ezra 9:7 Lit. shame of faces

21 (A)What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For (B)the end of those things is death.

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(A)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. O Lord, (B)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

“O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

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27 For (A)was not Israel a derision to you?
(B)Was he found among thieves?
For whenever you speak of him,
You shake your head in (C)scorn.

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24 (A)For shame has devoured
The labor of our fathers from our youth—
Their flocks and their herds,
Their sons and their daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame,
And our [a]reproach covers us.
(B)For we have sinned against the Lord our God,
We and our fathers,
From our youth even to this day,
And (C)have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:25 disgrace

36 (A)Why do you gad about so much to change your way?
Also (B)you shall be ashamed of Egypt (C)as you were ashamed of Assyria.

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29 For [a]they shall be ashamed of the [b]terebinth trees
Which you have desired;
And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
Which you have chosen.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:29 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; some Heb. mss., Tg. you
  2. Isaiah 1:29 Sites of pagan worship

30 People do not despise a thief
If he steals to satisfy himself when he is starving.
31 Yet when he is found, (A)he must restore sevenfold;
He may have to give up all the substance of his house.

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