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Then I rose from my fast, with my garments and my holy mantle rent, and kneeling down and stretching forth my hands to the Lord
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I said, "O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before thy face.
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For our sins have risen higher than our heads, and our mistakes have mounted up to heaven
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from the times of our fathers, and we are in great sin to this day.
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And because of our sins and the sins of our fathers we with our brethren and our kings and our priests were given over to the kings of the earth, to the sword and captivity and plundering, in shame until this day.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.