Ezra 9:15

9:15 O Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt ¹  no one can really stand before you.”

Ezra 8:21

8:21 I called for a fast there by the Ahava Canal, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and seek from him a safe journey ²  for us, our children, and all our property.

Ezra 8:29

8:29 Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, ³  in the storerooms of the temple of the Lord.”

Ezra 9:6

9:6 I prayed, ⁴ 

“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

Ezra 7:28

7:28 He has also conferred his favor on me before the king, his advisers, and all the influential leaders of the king. I gained strength as the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

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 ⁵  priests, have been delivered over by the local kings ⁶  to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment – right up to the present time.

Ezra 9:9

9:9 Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us ⁷  to restore the temple of our God and to raise ⁸  up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem. ⁹ 

Ezra 10:1

The People Confess Their Sins

10:1 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites – men, women, and children alike – gathered around him. The people wept loudly. ¹⁰ 

Ezra 10:6

10:6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed ¹¹  there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

[9:15]  ¹ tn Heb “this”; the referent (the guilt mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:21]  ² tn Heb “a straight way.”

[8:29]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “I said.”

[9:7]  ⁵ tc The MT lacks “and” here, but see the LXX and Vulgate.

[9:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “the kings of the lands.”

[9:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “has granted us reviving.”

[9:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

[9:9]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “with much weeping.”

[10:6]  ⁸ tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.