Ezra 9

1Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.Cross-references: Gen 15:16 · Gen 15:19 · Ex 13:5 · Ex 23:23 · Ex 33:16 · Lev 18:3 · +23 more

2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Ex 19:6 · Ex 22:31 · Ex 34:16 · Deut 7:1 · Deut 7:6 · +12 more

3When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.Cross-references: Lev 21:5 · Josh 7:6 · 2Ki 18:37 · Neh 1:4 · Neh 13:25 · Job 1:20 · +12 more

4Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me because of the trespass of the exiles; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.Cross-references: Ex 29:39 · 2Chr 34:27 · Ezra 10:3 · Ps 119:136 · Isa 66:2 · Ezek 9:4 · +2 more

5At the evening offering I rose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;Cross-references: Ex 9:29 · Ex 9:33 · 1Ki 8:22 · 1Ki 8:38 · 1Ki 8:54 · 2Chr 6:13 · +7 more

6and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · 2Chr 28:9 · Ezra 9:13 · Ezra 9:15 · Job 40:4 · Job 42:6 · +13 more

7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Num 32:14 · Deut 4:25 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:22 · Deut 30:17 · +22 more

8Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a stake in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revive us a little in our bondage.Cross-references: 1Sam 14:27 · 1Sam 14:29 · 2Ki 19:4 · 2Ki 19:30 · Ezra 9:9 · Ezra 9:13 · +25 more

9For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ezra 1:1 · Ezra 1:7 · Ezra 6:1 · Ezra 6:14 · Ezra 7:6 · Ezra 7:8 · +11 more

10“Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,Cross-references: Gen 44:16 · Josh 7:8 · Lam 3:22 · Dan 9:4 · Rom 3:19

11which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land to which you go to possess is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.Cross-references: Lev 18:24 · Deut 12:31 · Deut 18:12 · 2Ki 21:16 · 2Chr 33:2 · Ezra 6:21 · +3 more

12Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’Cross-references: Gen 18:18 · Ex 23:32 · Ex 34:15 · Deut 6:1 · Deut 7:3 · Deut 23:6 · +9 more

13“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,Cross-references: Ezra 9:6 · Neh 9:32 · Job 11:6 · Ps 103:10 · Ps 106:45 · Lam 3:22 · +4 more

14shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?Cross-references: Ex 23:32 · Ex 32:10 · Num 16:21 · Num 16:45 · Deut 9:8 · Deut 9:14 · +11 more

15Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”Cross-references: Neh 9:33 · Job 9:2 · Ps 130:3 · Ps 143:2 · Isa 64:6 · Jer 12:1 · +10 more