75 for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven (WEB) 76 ever since the time of our fathers. We are in great sin, even to this day. (WEB) 77 For our sins and our fathers’ sins we with our kindred, our kings, and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day. (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:75–77
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