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I fell to my knees and lifted my hands to the LORD my God. <a href="/esv/ezra/9.htm">English Standard Version</a> And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God, <a href="/bsb/ezra/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God, <a href="/kjv/ezra/9.htm">King James Bible</a> And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God, <a href="/nkjv/ezra/9.htm">New King James Version</a> At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God. <a href="/nasb_/ezra/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> But at the evening offering I stood up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I bowed down on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God; <a href="/nasb/ezra/9.htm">NASB 1995</a> But at the evening offering I arose from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the LORD my God; <a href="/nasb77/ezra/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a> But at the evening offering I arose from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the LORD my God; <a href="/lsb/ezra/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> But at the evening offering I arose from my affliction, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to Yahweh my God; <a href="/amp/ezra/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a> At the evening offering I arose from my [time of] humiliation and penitence and having torn my clothing and my robe, I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the LORD my God, <a href="/csb/ezra/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> At the evening offering, I got up from my time of humiliation, with my tunic and robe torn. Then I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God. <a href="/hcsb/ezra/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation, with my tunic and robe torn. Then I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God. <a href="/asv/ezra/9.htm">American Standard Version</a> And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God; <a href="/cev/ezra/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> At the time of the evening sacrifice, I was still sitting there in sorrow with my clothes all torn. So I got down on my knees, then lifted my arms, <a href="/erv/ezra/9.htm">English Revised Version</a> And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my mantle rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God; <a href="/gwt/ezra/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> At the evening sacrifice I got up from my misery, and with my clothes torn, I knelt down, stretched out my hands to the LORD my God in prayer, <a href="/gnt/ezra/9.htm">Good News Translation</a> When the time came for the evening sacrifice, I got up from where I had been grieving, and still wearing my torn clothes, I knelt in prayer and stretched out my hands to the LORD my God. <a href="/isv/ezra/9.htm">International Standard Version</a> At the time of the evening sacrifice, I arose from my discouragement. Still in my torn garment and robe, I fell to my knees with my hands outstretched to the LORD my God, <a href="/msb/ezra/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God, <a href="/net/ezra/9.htm">NET Bible</a> At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the LORD my God. <a href="/nheb/ezra/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God; <a href="/wbt/ezra/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And at the evening sacrifice I arose from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God, <a href="/web/ezra/9.htm">World English Bible</a> At the evening offering I rose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God; <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezra/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And at the present of the evening I have risen from my affliction, and at my tearing my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands to my God YHWH, <a href="/ylt/ezra/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And at the present of the evening I have risen from mine affliction, and at my rending my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God, <a href="/slt/ezra/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And at the sacrifice of the evening I rose up from my humbling; and in my rending my garment and my robe and I shall bend upon my knees and spread forth my hands to Jehovah my God.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezra/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction, and having rent my mantle and my garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord my God, <a href="/cpdv/ezra/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And at the evening sacrifice, I rose up from my affliction, and, having torn my cloak and my tunic, I fell to my knees, and I reached out my hands to the Lord, my God. <a href="/nabre/ezra/9.htm">New American Bible</a> Then, at the time of the evening sacrifice, I rose in my wretchedness, and with cloak and mantle torn I fell on my knees, stretching out my hands to the LORD, my God. <a href="/nrsvce/ezra/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> At the evening sacrifice I got up from my fasting, with my garments and my mantle torn, and fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezra/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And at the ninth hour I rose up from my sorrow; and having torn my garments, I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands in prayer before the LORD God, <a href="/hpbt/ezra/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And at the moment of the ninth hour, I arose from my griefs and from the tearing of my garments, and I bowed on my knees and I spread my hands in prayer before LORD JEHOVAH God<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezra/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And at the evening offering I arose up from my fasting, even with my garment and my mantle rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God; <a href="/sep/ezra/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my humiliation; and when I had rent my garments, then I trembled, and I bow myself on my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord God, <a href="/parallel/ezra/9-5.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sh6ec6iQe9M?start=2345" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezra/9.htm">Ezra's Prayer of Confession</a> 5<a href="/hebrew/6153.htm" title="6153: hā·‘e·reḇ (Art:: N-ms) -- Evening. From arab; dusk.">At the evening</a> <a href="/hebrew/4503.htm" title="4503: ū·ḇə·min·ḥaṯ (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- From an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. Bestow; a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering.">offering,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6965.htm" title="6965: qam·tî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To arise, stand up, stand. A primitive root; to rise.">I got up</a> <a href="/hebrew/8589.htm" title="8589: mit·ta·‘ă·nî·ṯî (Prep-m:: N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Humiliation. From anah; affliction, i.e. Fasting.">from my humiliation</a> <a href="/hebrew/899.htm" title="899: ḇiḡ·ḏî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage. From bagad; a covering, i.e. Clothing; also treachery or pillage.">with my tunic</a> <a href="/hebrew/4598.htm" title="4598: ū·mə·‘î·lî (Conj-w:: N-msc:: 1cs) -- A robe. From ma'al in the sense of covering; a robe.">and cloak</a> <a href="/hebrew/7167.htm" title="7167: ū·ḇə·qā·rə·‘î (Conj-w, Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf:: 1cs) -- To tear. A primitive root; to rend, literally or figuratively.">torn,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3766.htm" title="3766: wā·’eḵ·rə·‘āh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-1cs:: 3fs) -- To bow down. A primitive root; to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate.">and I fell</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/1290.htm" title="1290: bir·kay (N-fdc:: 1cs) -- The knee. From barak; a knee.">my knees,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6566.htm" title="6566: wā·’ep̄·rə·śāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-1cs:: 3fs) -- To spread out, spread. A primitive root; to break apart, disperse, etc.">spread out</a> <a href="/hebrew/3709.htm" title="3709: ḵap·pay (N-fdc:: 1cs) -- Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan. From kaphaph; the hollow hand or palm; figuratively, power.">my hands</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hāy (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">my God,</a> 6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/nehemiah/1-4.htm">Nehemiah 1:4</a> When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven. <a href="/daniel/9-3.htm">Daniel 9:3</a> So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. <a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12-13</a> “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” / So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster. <a href="/1_kings/21-27.htm">1 Kings 21:27</a> When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly. <a href="/jonah/3-5.htm">Jonah 3:5-6</a> And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. / When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. <a href="/2_chronicles/34-27.htm">2 Chronicles 34:27</a> because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD. <a href="/psalms/35-13.htm">Psalm 35:13-14</a> Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered. / I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother. <a href="/isaiah/58-5.htm">Isaiah 58:5</a> Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD? <a href="/jeremiah/6-26.htm">Jeremiah 6:26</a> O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. <a href="/lamentations/3-29.htm">Lamentations 3:29</a> Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope. <a href="/matthew/6-16.htm">Matthew 6:16-18</a> When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. / But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, / so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. <a href="/luke/18-13.htm">Luke 18:13</a> But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’ <a href="/acts/9-9.htm">Acts 9:9</a> For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything. <a href="/1_corinthians/7-5.htm">1 Corinthians 7:5</a> Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control. <a href="/2_corinthians/7-10.htm">2 Corinthians 7:10</a> Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,heaviness.<a href="/2_chronicles/6-13.htm">2 Chronicles 6:13</a> For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,<a href="/psalms/95-6.htm">Psalm 95:6</a> O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.<a href="/luke/22-41.htm">Luke 22:41</a> And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,spread<a href="/exodus/9-29.htm">Exodus 9:29,33</a> And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S… <a href="/1_kings/8-22.htm">1 Kings 8:22,38,54</a> And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: … <a href="/psalms/141-2.htm">Psalm 141:2</a> Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/33-12.htm">Affliction</a> <a href="/ezra/9-4.htm">Evening</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/32-13.htm">Falling</a> <a href="/1_kings/21-9.htm">Fasting</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/25-13.htm">Fell</a> <a href="/ezra/9-3.htm">Garment</a> <a href="/ezra/9-3.htm">Garments</a> <a href="/ezra/9-4.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/ezra/9-2.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-6.htm">Heaviness</a> <a href="/james/1-10.htm">Humiliation</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/6-13.htm">Knees</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/36-12.htm">Low</a> <a href="/ezra/9-3.htm">Mantle</a> <a href="/ezra/9-4.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/ezra/8-25.htm">Present</a> <a href="/1_kings/11-31.htm">Rending</a> <a href="/ezra/9-3.htm">Rent</a> <a href="/ezra/5-2.htm">Risen</a> <a href="/ezra/9-3.htm">Robe</a> <a href="/ezra/5-2.htm">Rose</a> <a href="/ezra/9-4.htm">Sacrifice</a> <a href="/colossians/2-23.htm">Self-Abasement</a> <a href="/ezra/9-3.htm">Signs</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/31-5.htm">Spread</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/20-24.htm">Stretched</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/34-27.htm">Torn</a> <a href="/ezra/9-3.htm">Tunic</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/32-33.htm">Upper</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/nehemiah/1-3.htm">Affliction</a> <a href="/esther/2-14.htm">Evening</a> <a href="/job/4-4.htm">Falling</a> <a href="/nehemiah/1-4.htm">Fasting</a> <a href="/nehemiah/6-16.htm">Fell</a> <a href="/esther/8-15.htm">Garment</a> <a href="/nehemiah/7-70.htm">Garments</a> <a href="/nehemiah/8-11.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/ezra/10-4.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/job/9-27.htm">Heaviness</a> <a href="/job/19-5.htm">Humiliation</a> <a href="/job/3-12.htm">Knees</a> <a href="/esther/1-20.htm">Low</a> <a href="/esther/8-15.htm">Mantle</a> <a href="/ezra/10-19.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-1.htm">Present</a> <a href="/psalms/7-2.htm">Rending</a> <a href="/esther/4-1.htm">Rent</a> <a href="/ezra/9-6.htm">Risen</a> <a href="/esther/4-1.htm">Robe</a> <a href="/ezra/10-5.htm">Rose</a> <a href="/nehemiah/4-2.htm">Sacrifice</a> <a href="/colossians/2-18.htm">Self-Abasement</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-10.htm">Signs</a> <a href="/nehemiah/4-19.htm">Spread</a> <a href="/esther/4-3.htm">Stretched</a> <a href="/job/4-21.htm">Torn</a> <a href="/job/30-18.htm">Tunic</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-25.htm">Upper</a><div class="vheading2">Ezra 9</div>1. <a href="/ezra/9-1.htm">Ezra mourns for the affinity of the people with strangers</a> 5. <a href="/ezra/9-5.htm">He prays unto God, with confession of sins</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This was a significant time for prayer and reflection, as it was a moment when the Israelites would turn their hearts toward God. The evening sacrifice is mentioned in <a href="/exodus/29-39.htm">Exodus 29:39-41</a> and <a href="/daniel/9-21.htm">Daniel 9:21</a>, highlighting its importance in Jewish worship. It symbolizes a time of repentance and seeking God's mercy, aligning with Ezra's actions in this passage.I got up from my humiliation Ezra's humiliation refers to his deep sense of shame and sorrow over the sins of the people of Israel, particularly their intermarriage with pagan nations, which was against God's commandments (<a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a>). This act of humility is a demonstration of true repentance and aligns with the biblical principle that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (<a href="/james/4-6.htm">James 4:6</a>).with my tunic and cloak torn Tearing one's garments was a traditional expression of grief, mourning, or repentance in ancient Israel (<a href="/genesis/37-29.htm">Genesis 37:29</a>, <a href="/2_samuel/1-11.htm">2 Samuel 1:11</a>). It was a physical manifestation of inner turmoil and distress. Ezra's torn garments symbolize his deep anguish over the spiritual state of the people and his personal identification with their sin.and I fell on my knees Falling on one's knees is a posture of submission and earnest prayer. It signifies humility and a recognition of God's sovereignty. This act is seen throughout Scripture as a way to seek God's favor and intervention (<a href="/daniel/6-10.htm">Daniel 6:10</a>, <a href="/acts/9-40.htm">Acts 9:40</a>). Ezra's kneeling reflects his earnest plea for God's mercy and guidance.spread out my hands to the LORD my God Spreading out hands in prayer is a gesture of supplication and openness to receive from God. It is a biblical posture of prayer seen in <a href="/1_kings/8-22.htm">1 Kings 8:22</a> and <a href="/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6</a>, symbolizing a plea for divine help and an expression of dependence on God. This act underscores Ezra's deep faith and trust in God's ability to forgive and restore.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezra.htm">Ezra</a> A scribe and priest who led a group of exiles back to Jerusalem. He was deeply concerned about the spiritual state of the returned exiles and their intermarriage with pagan nations. 2. <a href="/topical/e/evening_sacrifice.htm">Evening Sacrifice</a> A significant time in the Jewish day, marking a moment of prayer and offering to God. It was a time when the community would gather for worship and reflection. 3. <a href="/topical/s/self-abasement.htm">Self-abasement</a> Ezra's act of humility and repentance, demonstrated by tearing his garments and falling to his knees, symbolizing deep sorrow for the sins of the people. 4. <a href="/topical/t/tunic_and_cloak_torn.htm">Tunic and Cloak Torn</a> A traditional expression of mourning and repentance in Jewish culture, indicating distress and a plea for divine intervention. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord_my_god.htm">The LORD my God</a> The covenant name of God, emphasizing a personal and communal relationship with the divine, whom Ezra addresses in his prayer.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a> Ezra's actions remind us that true repentance involves humility and a sincere turning back to God. It is not just an emotional response but a commitment to change. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_leadership_in_spiritual_renewal.htm">The Role of Leadership in Spiritual Renewal</a> As a leader, Ezra sets an example for the people by acknowledging sin and seeking God's mercy. Leaders today are called to guide others in spiritual renewal and repentance. <a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_prayer.htm">The Power of Prayer</a> Ezra's prayer at the evening sacrifice underscores the power of prayer in seeking God's forgiveness and guidance. Prayer should be a central part of our response to sin. <a href="/topical/c/community_responsibility.htm">Community Responsibility</a> Ezra's actions show that the sins of a community affect everyone. We are called to intercede not only for ourselves but for our communities, seeking collective repentance and restoration. <a href="/topical/s/symbolic_acts_of_faith.htm">Symbolic Acts of Faith</a> Tearing garments and spreading hands in prayer are outward expressions of inward faith and repentance. Our actions should reflect our heart's condition before God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezra_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezra 9</a> <a href="/q/evidence_for_ezra_9_5-6_events.htm">Is there any archaeological or historical evidence corroborating Ezra’s account of widespread repentance or public assembly in Ezra 9:5–6? </a> <a href="/q/what_do_1_and_2_esdras_teach_us.htm">What lessons do First and Second Esdras teach us?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_nehemiah_8_9-12_urge_joy,_not_sorrow.htm">Why do Nehemiah 8:9–12 command people to rejoice instead of mourning if they had just realized their past failures? </a> <a href="/q/how_did_biblical_people_look.htm">What was the appearance of biblical people?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezra/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(5-15) Ezra's prayer of confession and deprecation.(5) And at the evening sacrifice I arose up.--Until the afternoon Ezra had sat silent and in grief before the Temple, and in presence of the people. Then, amidst the solemnities of the sacrifice, he uttered the prayer which he had been meditating.(6) And said, O my God.--The confession begins with "O my God;" but Ezra is the representative of the people, and it proceeds "O our God" (<a href="/ezra/9-10.htm" title="And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your commandments,">Ezra 9:10</a>), without once returning to the first person.(7) Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass.--In these Common Prayers of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel, the race of Israel is regarded as one, and national sins as one "great trespass." The repetition of "this day" at the beginning and at the end of the verse is to be observed: in the former place in reference to the sin; in the latter in reference to the punishment.(8) A little space.--The "little" here and at the close of the sentence are emphatic. All the present tokens of mercy are said at the conclusion of the prayer (<a href="/ezra/9-14.htm" title="Should we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? would not you be angry with us till you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?">Ezra 9:14</a>) to be conditional in their continuance. The little space from the time of Cyrus was nearly two generations; but it was a moment only in relation to the past and the possible future. The idea is inverted in <a href="/isaiah/54-7.htm" title="For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.">Isaiah 54:7</a> : "For a small moment have I forsaken thee."Nail in his holy place.--The Temple was itself the sure nail on which all their hopes hung. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezra/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 5. - At the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness. The time of sacrifice was the fittest time for prayer, especially for a prayer in which acknowledgment of sin was to form a large part. Sacrifice symbolized expiation; and Ezra probably felt that his supplication would be helped by the expiatory rite which was being performed at the time. He rent his garment and his mantle a second time, as a renewed indication of sorrow, and with the view of impressing the people who "were assembled unto him" (ver. 4) the more, and stirring them up to penitence. "Segnius irritant animum demissa per aures Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus." <a href="/commentaries/ezra/9-5.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>At the evening הָעֶ֗רֶב (hā·‘e·reḇ) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6153.htm">Strong's 6153: </a> Evening offering, וּבְמִנְחַ֣ת (ū·ḇə·min·ḥaṯ) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4503.htm">Strong's 4503: </a> A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering I got up קַ֚מְתִּי (qam·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6965.htm">Strong's 6965: </a> To arise, stand up, stand from my humiliation מִתַּֽעֲנִיתִ֔י (mit·ta·‘ă·nî·ṯî) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8589.htm">Strong's 8589: </a> Affliction, fasting with my tunic בִגְדִ֖י (ḇiḡ·ḏî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_899.htm">Strong's 899: </a> A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage and cloak וּמְעִילִ֑י (ū·mə·‘î·lî) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4598.htm">Strong's 4598: </a> A robe torn, וּבְקָרְעִ֥י (ū·ḇə·qā·rə·‘î) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7167.htm">Strong's 7167: </a> To rend and I fell וָֽאֶכְרְעָה֙ (wā·’eḵ·rə·‘āh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3766.htm">Strong's 3766: </a> To bend the knee, to sink, to prostrate on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against my knees, בִּרְכַּ֔י (bir·kay) Noun - fdc | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1290.htm">Strong's 1290: </a> The knee spread out וָאֶפְרְשָׂ֥ה (wā·’ep̄·rə·śāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6566.htm">Strong's 6566: </a> To break apart, disperse my hands כַפַּ֖י (ḵap·pay) Noun - fdc | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3709.htm">Strong's 3709: </a> Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel my God, אֱלֹהָֽי׃ (’ĕ·lō·hāy) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezra/9-5.htm">Ezra 9:5 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezra/9-5.htm">OT History: Ezra 9:5 At the evening offering I arose up (Ezr. 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