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My iniquities overwhelm me,
    a burden too heavy for me.(A)

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My wounds(A) fester and are loathsome(B)
    because of my sinful folly.(C)

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11 My heart shudders, my strength forsakes me;
    the very light of my eyes has failed.(A)

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11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;(A)
    my neighbors stay far away.

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A Penitential Prayer. [a](A)I said: “My God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to raise my face to you, my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:6–15 The prayer attributed to Ezra is a communal confession of sin, of a kind characteristic of the Second Temple period (cf. Neh 9:6–37; Dn 9:4–19; 1QS 1:4–2:1), but adapted to the present situation.

and prayed:

“I am too ashamed(A) and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.(B)

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