1 Esdras 8:76
King James VersionSource notes
“For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in great sin, even unto this day.”
Context
73Then 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,
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.
76For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in great sin, even unto this day.
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 shewed unto us from thee, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of thy sanctuary;
79And to discover unto us a light in the house of the Lord our God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude.