Ezra 9:6
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Berean Study Bible
and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

Young's Literal Translation
and say, ‘O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens.

King James Bible
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

Hebrew
and said:
וָאֹמְרָ֗ה (wā·’ō·mə·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“O my God,
אֱלֹהַי֙ (’ĕ·lō·hay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

I am ashamed
בֹּ֣שְׁתִּי (bō·šə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 954: To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed

and embarrassed
וְנִכְלַ֔מְתִּי (wə·niḵ·lam·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3637: To wound, to taunt, insult

to lift up
לְהָרִ֧ים (lə·hā·rîm)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

my face
פָּנַ֖י (pā·nay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6440: The face

to You,
אֵלֶ֑יךָ (’ê·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

my God,
אֱלֹהַ֛י (’ĕ·lō·hay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

because
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

our iniquities
עֲוֺנֹתֵ֤ינוּ (‘ă·wō·nō·ṯê·nū)
Noun - common plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity

are higher than
רָבוּ֙ (rā·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

our heads,
רֹּ֔אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7218: The head

and our guilt
וְאַשְׁמָתֵ֥נוּ (wə·’aš·mā·ṯê·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 819: Guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of a, sin-offering

has reached
גָדְלָ֖ה (ḡā·ḏə·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1431: To grow up, become great

the heavens.
לַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ (laš·šā·mā·yim)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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