6And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
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For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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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 temp…
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