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Ezra 9:1
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:2 |
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:3 |
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:4 |
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:5 |
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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, |
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| Ezra 9:6 |
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:7 |
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:8 |
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And now for a little space grace hath been shewed
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. |
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| Ezra 9:9 |
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:10 |
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And now, O our God, what shall we say after
this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, |
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| Ezra 9:11 |
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:12 |
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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. |
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| Ezra 9:13 |
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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; |
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| Ezra 9:14 |
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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? |
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| Ezra 9:15 |
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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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