Ezra 9:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Ezra 9:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Joshua 7:8
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
Daniel 9:4-16
And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; …
Lamentations 3:22
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Genesis 44:16
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-15)

What the meditations of Ezra’s heart were, while for some hours he sat down astonished, we may guess by the words of his mouth when at length he spoke with his tongue; and a most pathetic address he here makes to Heaven upon this occasion. Observe, I. The time when he made this address— at the evening sacrifice, Ezra 9:5. Then (it is likely) devout people used to come into the courts of the temple…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

5-15. I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God--The burden of his prayer, which was dictated by a deep sense of the emergency, was that he was overwhelmed at the flagrant enormity of this sin, and the bold impiety of continuing in it after having, as a people, so recently experienced the heavy marks of the divine displeasure. God had begun to show returning favor to Israe…