1Esdr 8:72
So all they that were then moved at the word of the Lord God
of Israel assembled unto me, whilst I mourned for the iniquity:
but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

1Esdr 8:73
Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and the holy
garment rent, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands
unto the Lord,

1Esdr 8:74
I said, O Lord, I am confounded and ashamed before thy face;

1Esdr 8:75
For our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our
ignorances have reached up unto heaven.

1Esdr 8:76
For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are
in great sin, even unto this day.

1Esdr 8:77
And for our sins and our fathers' we with our brethren and
our kings and our priests were given up unto the kings of the
earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with
shame, unto this day.

1Esdr 8:78
And now in some measure hath mercy been shewed unto us from