1 Esdras 8:76

⁷⁴I said, O Lord, I am confounded and ashamed before thy face;

⁷⁵for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our ignorances have reached up unto heaven.

— 1 Esdras 8:76 —

⁷⁷And 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.

⁷⁸And now in some measure hath mercy been shown unto us from thee, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of thy sanctuary;