Gustave Doré1866
Ezra Kneels in Prayer
Grieved by the people's unfaithfulness, Ezra falls to his knees and spreads out his hands to the Lord, confessing the nation's guilt in prayer (Ezra 9). A wood engraving from Gustave Doré's La Grande Bible de Tours (1866).

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Paul Gustave Doré was a prolific French illustrator whose 241 wood engravings for "La Grande Bible de Tours" (1866) became the most influential visual interpretation of scripture of the 19th century.
