Ezra 3:11

3:11 With antiphonal response they sang, ¹  praising and glorifying the Lord:

“For he is good;

his loyal love toward Israel is forever.”

All the people gave a loud ²  shout as they praised the Lord when the temple of the Lord was established.

Ezra 7:6

7:6 This Ezra is the one who came up from Babylon. He was a scribe who was skilled in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king supplied him with everything he requested, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Ezra 9:7

9:7 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 ³  priests, have been delivered over by the local kings ⁴  to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment – right up to the present time.

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ⁵  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ⁶  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

[3:11]  ¹ tn Heb “they answered.”

[3:11]  ² tn Heb “great.”

[9:7]  ³ tc The MT lacks “and” here, but see the LXX and Vulgate.

[9:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “the kings of the lands.”

[10:16]  ⁵ tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadÿlu, “were separated”) of the MT.

[10:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”