Ezra 9:6
And 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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Study Note
Ezra's penitential prayer — 'O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, for our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens' — employs the bold spatial image of sin as an accumulating flood that has risen above the community's height and now threatens to reach heaven itself. The first-person singular ('I am ashamed... our iniquities') signals Ezra's identification with the community's guilt despite his own personal innocence in the intermarriage crisis, establishing a pattern of representative, vicarious confession. Daniel 9:4–19 offers a close structural parallel, and together these prayers constitute the primary examples in the Hebrew Bible of priestly-scribal leaders offering corporate confession on behalf of a community. The verse became a model for Christian penitential prayer traditions, influencing the language of the Anglican General Confession and other liturgical forms.
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and I 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 guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.
and say, `O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens.
I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
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