Ezra 9:7
Since the days of our fathers we in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as this day.
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5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Yahuah my Elohim,
6 And said, O my Elohim, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my Elohim: for our iniquities are increased over head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
7 Since the days of our fathers we in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as this day.
8 And now for a little space grace has been from the Yahuah our Elohim, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our Elohim may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
9 For we bondmen; yet our Elohim has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our Elohim, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.