Ezr 9:6-7

and I said,
“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God,
for our iniquities have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown even to the heavens.

“Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder and to open shame, as it is this day.

Ezra acknowledges that since the days of their fathers they had been in great guilt

They had sinned greatly.
They had not listened to the Word of the Lord.
There iniquities were many.

Due to their sin they had been given over to kings of other lands.
They had been given over to the sword.
They had been taken captive.
They had been plundered.
They became open shame…to that day.

Now, they were back on the land.

Had their hearts changed?
They were continuing in sin…remember the first part of this chapter.
What were they to do?

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