SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:13
Mas después de todo lo que nos ha sobrevenido a causa de nuestras malas obras, y a causa de nuestro delito grande (ya que tú, Dios nuestro, estorbaste que fuésemos oprimidos a causa de nuestras iniquidades, y nos diste semejante escapadura);
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Ezra 9:13
Verse 13. Hast punished us less than our iniquities] Great, numerous, and oppressive as our calamities have been, yet merely as temporal punishments, they have been much less than our provocations have deserved.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass , etc.] As famine, sword, pestilence, and captivity, for their idolatries and other heinous sins: seeing that our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve ; for they deserved eternal punishment, whereas it was temporal punishment that was inflicted, and this moderate, and now stopped; the sense is, according to Aben Ezra, “thou hast refrained from writing some of our sins in the book of remembrance, and thou hast let them down below in the earth, according to the sense of thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea;” but Jarchi better, “thou hast refrained thyself from exacting of us all our sins, and hast exacted of us beneath our sins (or less than they deserve), and hast not taken vengeance on us according to all our sins:” and hast given us such deliverance as this ; from captivity, which they now enjoyed.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-15 - The sacrifice, especially the evening sacrifice, was a type of the blessed Lamb of God, who in the evening of the world, was to take awa sin by the sacrifice of himself. Ezra's address is a peniten confession of sin, the sin of his people. But let this be the comfor of true penitents, that though their sins reach to the heavens, God' mercy is in the heavens. Ezra, speaking of sin, speaks as one muc ashamed. Holy shame is as necessary in true repentance as holy sorrow Ezra speaks as much amazed. The discoveries of guilt cause amazement the more we think of sin, the worse it looks. Say, God be merciful to me sinner. Ezra speaks as one much afraid. There is not a surer of saddler presage of ruin, than turning to sin, after great judgments and great deliverances. Every one in the church of God, has to wonde that he has not wearied out the Lord's patience, and brough destruction upon himself. What then must be the case of the ungodly But though the true penitent has nothing to plead in his own behalf the heavenly Advocate pleads most powerfully for him __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואחרי 310 כל 3605 הבא 935 עלינו 5921 במעשׂינו 4639 הרעים 7451 ובאשׁמתנו 819 הגדלה 1419 כי 3588 אתה 859 אלהינו 430 חשׂכת 2820 למטה 4295 מעוננו 5771 ונתתה 5414 לנו פליטה 6413 כזאת׃ 2063
