Ezra 9 (NET)

Ezra 9:1¹Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 18:24-30Neh 9:2Ezra 10:10-11Deut 12:30-31Exod 33:16Rom 2:17-251 Kgs 11:11 Kgs 11:5-72 Chr 33:22 Cor 6:14-18

Ezra 9:2²Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all this unfaithfulness!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:23-24Exod 34:16Ezra 10:18-44Ezra 10:2Deut 7:1-4Deut 7:61 Cor 7:14Deut 14:2Exod 19:6Exod 22:31

Ezra 9:3³When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and my robe and ripped out some of the hair from my head and beard. Then I sat down, quite devastated.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 1:4Josh 7:62 Kgs 18:37-19:1Dan 4:19Dan 8:27Ezek 3:15Ezek 7:18Isa 15:2Jer 36:24Jer 48:37-38

Ezra 9:4⁴Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile. Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 10:3Isa 66:2Exod 29:392 Chr 34:27Ps 119:136Acts 3:1Dan 9:21Ezek 9:4

Ezra 9:5⁵At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the Lord my God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:221 Kgs 8:381 Kgs 8:54Exod 9:29Exod 9:332 Chr 6:13Eph 3:14Ps 141:2Ps 143:6Ps 95:6

Ezra 9:6⁶I prayed: “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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 18:5Ps 38:42 Chr 28:9Ezra 9:15Job 42:6Luke 15:21Jer 3:24-25Dan 9:7-8Ezek 16:63Ezra 9:13

Ezra 9:7⁷From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment—right up to the present time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 29:6Dan 9:5-81 Kgs 9:6-91 Sam 12:152 Chr 30:72 Chr 36:16-192 Kgs 17:5-82 Kgs 18:9-122 Kgs 24:1-4Acts 7:51-52

Ezra 9:8⁸“But now briefly we have received mercy from the Lord our God, in that he has left us a remnant and has given us a secure position in his holy place. Thus our God has enlightened our eyes and has given us a little relief in our time of servitude.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 13:3Rom 11:5-6Hos 6:2Ezek 37:11-14Hab 3:2Isa 57:15Ps 85:6Eccl 12:11Ezek 14:22Ezek 6:8-9

Ezra 9:9⁹Although 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 to restore the temple of our God and to raise up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 7:6Ps 136:23-24Hag 1:9Ps 106:45-46Zech 2:5Zech 4:6-10Dan 9:25Ezek 11:16Ezra 1:1-4Ezra 1:7-11

Ezra 9:10¹⁰“And now what are we able to say after this, our God? For we have forsaken your commandmentsCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 9:4-16Gen 44:16Josh 7:8Lam 3:22Rom 3:19

Ezra 9:11¹¹which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents! With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 18:24-30Ezra 6:212 Chr 33:22 Cor 7:1Deut 12:31Deut 18:12Ezek 36:25-27Ezra 9:1

Ezra 9:12¹²Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:3Deut 23:6Josh 23:12-13Prov 13:22Exod 34:15-162 John 1:10-11Prov 20:7Exod 23:32Ezra 9:2Gen 18:18-19

Ezra 9:13¹³“Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 103:10Lam 3:22Lam 3:39-40Job 11:6Ezek 24:13-14Ezra 9:6-8Neh 9:32Ps 106:45-46Gal 3:4Hab 3:2

Ezra 9:14¹⁴Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:8Deut 9:14Ezra 9:22 Pet 2:20-21Exod 32:10John 5:14Judg 2:2Num 16:21Num 16:45Rom 6:1

Ezra 9:15¹⁵O 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 no one can really stand before you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 130:3John 8:24John 8:21Rom 3:19Neh 9:33-34Rom 10:3Zech 3:3-4Dan 9:14Dan 9:7-11Ezek 33:10