Ezra 9:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ya TUHAN, Allah Israel, Engkau maha benar, sebab kami masih dibiarkan tinggal sebagai orang-orang yang terluput, seperti yang terjadi sekarang ini. Lihatlah, kami menghadap hadirat-Mu dengan kesalahan kami. Bahwasanya, dalam keadaan demikian tidak mungkin orang tahan berdiri di hadapan-Mu."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ya TUHAN, Allah Israel, Engkau maha benar, sebab kami masih dibiarkan tinggal sebagai orang-orang yang terluput, seperti yang terjadi sekarang ini. Lihatlah, kami menghadap hadirat-Mu dengan kesalahan kami. Bahwasanya, dalam keadaan demikian tidak mungkin orang tahan berdiri di hadapan-Mu."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Ya Tuhan, Allah orang Israel! Engkaulah mahaadil; maka kami diberi tinggal lagi akan luput, seperti pada hari ini adanya. Bahwa sesungguhnya di hadapan hadirat-Mu kami sekalian dalam hal kesalahan, karena seorang juapun tiada yang dapat berdiri di hadapan hadirat-Mu oleh sebab yang demikian ini.

Contextual Overview

⁵ And about the euening sacrifice I arose vp from my heauinesse, and rent my clothes and my rayment, and fell vpon my knees, and spread out my handes vnto the Lorde my God, ⁶ And sayde: My God, I am ashamed, and dare not lift vp myne eyes vnto thee my God: for our wickednesses are growen ouer our head, and our trespasse is waxed great vnto the heauen. ⁷ Since the time of our fathers haue we ben in great trespasse vnto this day, and because of our wickednesses haue we and our kinges and our priestes ben deliuered into the hande of the kinges of the nations, vnto the sworde, into captiuitie, into a spoyle, and into confusion of face, as it is to see this day. ⁸ And nowe for a litle space grace hath ben shewed from the Lorde our God, in causing a remnaunt to escape, and in geuing vs a nayle in his holy place, that our God may light our eyes, and geue vs a litle lyfe to take breath in our bondage: ⁹ For we were bondmen, and yet our God hath not forsaken vs in our bondage, but hath enclined mercie vnto vs in the sight of the king of Persia, to geue vs lyfe to set vp the house of our God, and to redresse the desolation therof, and to geue vs a wall in Iuda and Hierusalem. ¹⁰ And nowe O our God, what shall we say after this? for we haue forsaken thy commaundementes, ¹¹ Whiche thou hast commaunded by thy seruauntes the prophetes, saying: The lande vnto which ye go to possesse, it is an vncleane lande, because of the filthinesse of the people of the landes, whiche with their abhominations haue made it full of vncleannesse on euery syde. ¹² Therfore shal ye not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, and their daughters shall ye not take vnto your sonnes, nor seke their peace and wealth for euer: that ye may be strong and enioy the goodnesse of the lande, and that ye and your children may haue the inheritaunce of it for euermore. ¹³ And after that all these thinges are come vpon vs because of our euyll deedes and great trespasses, seyng that thou our God hast stayed vs from beyng beneath for our iniquities, and hast geuen vs such deliuerance: ¹⁴ Shoulde we returne to breake thy commaundementes, and ioyne in affinitie with the people of these abhominations? wouldest not thou be angry towardes vs till thou hadst consumed vs, so that there should be no remnaunt, nor any escaping?

Bible Verse Review
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thou art righteous: Nehemiah 9:33, Nehemiah 9:34, Daniel 9:7-11, Daniel 9:14, Romans 10:3

for we remain: Lamentations 3:22, Lamentations 3:23

in our trespasses: Isaiah 64:6, Isaiah 64:7, Ezekiel 33:10, Zechariah 3:3, Zechariah 3:4, John 8:21, John 8:24, 1 Corinthians 15:17

we cannot: Job 9:2, Job 9:3, Psalms 130:3, Psalms 143:2, Romans 3:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:16 - What shall we say Exodus 32:31 - sinned Leviticus 26:41 - and they Joshua 22:15 - General Nehemiah 9:2 - confessed Job 40:4 - Behold Psalms 116:5 - and righteous Psalms 119:137 - General Psalms 129:4 - The Lord Jeremiah 14:7 - for our Ezekiel 7:16 - they Luke 13:9 - if not

Cross-References

Genesis 9:8
God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying:

Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be.

Exodus 28:12
And thou shalt put the two stones vpon the two shoulders of the ephod [that they may be] stones of remembraunce vnto the children of Israel: and Aaron shal beare their names before the Lord vpon his two shoulders for a remembraunce.

Deuteronomy 7:9
Understande therfore, that the Lorde thy God he is God, and that a true God, which kepeth appoyntment and mercie vnto them that loue hym and kepe his commaundementes, euen throughout a thousande generations:

1 Kings 8:23
Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heauen aboue, or in the earth beneath, thou that kepest couenaunt & mercy for thy seruauntes that walke before thee with all their heart.

Nehemiah 9:32
Now therfore our God, thou great God mightie and terrible, thou that kepest couenaunt and mercie, regarde not a litle al the trauaile that hath come vnto vs, and our kinges, our princes, our priestes, our prophetes, and our fathers, and all the people since the time of the kinges of Assur, vnto this day.

Psalms 106:45
And he remembred his couenaunt: and repented, according to the multitude of his mercies.

Jeremiah 14:21
Cast vs not of (O Lord) for thy names sake, forget not thy louyng kindnesse, ouerthrowe not the throne of thine honour, breake not the couenaunt that thou hast made with vs.

Ezekiel 16:60
Neuerthelesse, I wyll remember my couenaunt with thee in the daies of thy youth, and I wyll establishe vnto thee an euerlasting couenaunt.

Luke 1:72
That he would deale mercyfully with our fathers, and remember his holy couenaunt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous,.... And would appear to be so, should Israel be entirely cut off, and utterly consumed for their iniquities:

for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day; that they remained yet escaped out of captivity, and escaped the wrath and vengeance of God, was not owing to any deserts of theirs, but to the grace and mercy of God, who had not stirred up all his wrath, as their sins deserved:

behold, we are before thee in our trespasses; to do with us as seems good in thy sight; we have nothing to plead on our behalf, but cast ourselves at thy feet, if so be unmerited favour may be shown us:

for we cannot stand before thee because of this; this evil of contracting affinity with the nations; we cannot defend ourselves; we cannot plead ignorance of the divine commands; we have nothing to say for ourselves why judgment should not be passed upon us; we leave ourselves in thine hands, and at thy mercy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Some take “righteous” to mean here “kind” or “merciful.” Others give it the more usual sense of “just,” and understand the full meaning of the passage to be, “Thou art righteous, and hast punished us, because of our sin, the contraction of forbidden marriages, so that we are a mere remnant of what was once a great people.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Thou art righteous — Thou art merciful; this is one of the many meanings of the word צדק tsedek; and to this meaning St. Paul refers, when he says, God declares his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, Romans 3:25. See the note there.

We remain yet escaped — Because of this righteousness or mercy.

In our trespasses — We have no righteousness; we are clothed and covered with our trespasses.

We cannot stand before thee because of this. — The parallel place, as noted in the margin, is Psalms 130:3: If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Every man must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ: but who shall stand there with joy? No man against whom the Lord marks iniquities. There is a reference here to the temple service: the priests and Levites stood and ministered before the Lord, but they were not permitted to do so unless pure from all legal pollution; so no man shall stand before the judgment-seat of Christ who is not washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Reader, how dost thou expect to stand there?