and prayed:

“I am too ashamed(A) and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.(B)

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When I heard these things, I sat down and wept.(A) For some days I mourned and fasted(B) and prayed before the God of heaven.

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Then I said:

Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God,(A) who keeps his covenant of love(B) with those who love him and keep his commandments,

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The king said to me, “What is it you want?”

Then I prayed to the God of heaven,

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20 I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding,(A) but as for you, you have no share(B) in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”

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You alone are the Lord.(A) You made the heavens,(B) even the highest heavens, and all their starry host,(C) the earth(D) and all that is on it, the seas(E) and all that is in them.(F) You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven(G) worship you.

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13 “You came down on Mount Sinai;(A) you spoke(B) to them from heaven.(C) You gave them regulations and laws that are just(D) and right, and decrees and commands that are good.(E)

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15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven(A) and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock;(B) you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand(C) to give them.(D)

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27 So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies,(A) who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion(B) you gave them deliverers,(C) who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

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28 “But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight.(A) Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion(B) you delivered them(C) time after time.

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He alone stretches out the heavens(A)
    and treads on the waves of the sea.(B)

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They are higher(A) than the heavens(B) above—what can you do?
    They are deeper than the depths below(C)—what can you know?(D)

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12 so he lies down and does not rise;(A)
    till the heavens are no more,(B) people will not awake
    or be roused from their sleep.(C)

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15 If God places no trust in his holy ones,(A)
    if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,(B)

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Though the pride(A) of the godless person reaches to the heavens(B)
    and his head touches the clouds,(C)

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27 The heavens will expose his guilt;
    the earth will rise up against him.(A)

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12 “Is not God in the heights of heaven?(A)
    And see how lofty are the highest stars!

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14 Thick clouds(A) veil him, so he does not see us(B)
    as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’(C)

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