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EZR-9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me,
saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites,
have not separated themselves from the people of the lands,
[doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the
Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
EZR-9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves,
and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled
themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of
the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
EZR-9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my
mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and
sat down astonied.
EZR-9:4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at
the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of
those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the
evening sacrifice.
EZR-9:5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my
heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon
my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
EZR-9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my
face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over
[our] head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
EZR-9:7 Since the days of our fathers [have] we [been] in a
great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we,
our kings, [and] our priests, been delivered into the hand of
the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a
spoil, and to confusion of face, as [it is] this day.
EZR-9:8 And now for a little space grace hath been [showed] from
the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give
us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes,
and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
EZR-9:9 For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us
in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of
the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house
of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give
us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
EZR-9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for
we have forsaken thy commandments,
EZR-9:11 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets,
saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean
land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their
abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with
their uncleanness.
EZR-9:12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons,
neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their
peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat
the good of the land, and leave [it] for an inheritance to your
children for ever.
EZR-9:13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds,
and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast
punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given
us [such] deliverance as this;
EZR-9:14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in
affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not
thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us], so that
[there should be] no remnant nor escaping?
EZR-9:15 O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we
remain yet escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before
thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because
of this.
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