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) 78 Now in some measure mercy has been shown to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary, (WEB) 79 and to uncover a light in the house of the Lord our God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude. (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:75–79
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