THEOSISEzra 9:10Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
וְעַתָּ֛ה מַה־נֹּאמַ֥ר אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ אֽ͏ַחֲרֵי־זֹ֑את כִּ֥י עָזַ֖בְנוּ מִצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 44:16And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he with whom the cup was found.
- Dan 9:4And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.
- Dan 9:16O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round about us.
- Lam 3:22Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
- Rom 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.
- Josh 7:8My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?