Ezra 8:22

8:22 I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy ¹  along the way, because we had said to the king, “The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger ²  is against everyone who forsakes him.”

Ezra 10:9

10:9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

[8:22]  ¹ tn A number of modern translations regard this as a collective singular and translate “from enemies” (also in v. 31).

[8:22]  ² tn Heb “his strength and his anger.” The expression is a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms).