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Nehemiah 1:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Both I and my father's house have sinned. Ewald well observes, "In the prayer of Nehemiah the keynote is struck in the words, 'I and my father's house have sinned'". The desolation which he mourns is the result of the people's sins, and in those sins are included his own, and those of his ancestors.

His own may not have been very grievous, but those of his fathers weigh upon him as if his own, and oppress his spirit.

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