Ezra 9:6
Hebrew Bible
5 At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the Lord my God. 6 I prayed: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens. 7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment—right up to the present time.
Date: 4th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Luke 18:13
New Testament
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’ 13 The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’ 14 I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Date: 75-85 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... As the seat of sight, panim can also mean the glance (with the eyes) and thus appear as a synonym for enayim "eyes" (Isaiah 5:21). Thus panim be’el-panim "face to face" corresponds to the expression ayin be‘ayin "eye to eye" (Numbers 14:14; Isaiah 52:8; compare also Jeremiah 32:4). The phrase nasa panim, like nasa ‘enayim, means "to raise one’s sight, glance up" (with panim compare 2 Samuel 2:22; 2 Kings 9:32; of the guilty who dares not freely look up to God, Job 11:15; 22:26; with rum hi, Ezra 9:6; compare with Luke 18:13) ..."
Jenni, Ernst, and Claus Westermann
Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament
(p. 1255) Hendrickson Publishers, 1997
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