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OET-RV by cross-referenced section EZRA 9:5

EZRA 9:5–9:15 ©

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Ezra’s prayer

Ezra 9:5–15

5So I got up from my position of humilation with my torn clothes during the evening sacrifice, then I went down on my knees and spread out my palms to my God Yahweh 6and prayed, “My God, I’m ashamed and humiliated to raise my face to you, my God, because our sins have multiplied and risen above our heads, and our guilt has mounted up as high as the sky. 7From back in the time of our ancestors until today, we’ve been very guilty, and in our disobedience, we ourselves, including our kings and our priests, have been killed by the kings of the surrounding countries, or taken captive, or been plundered, or simply put to shame, which is the case right now. 8But now for a brief moment, favour has come from our God Yahweh and given us remaining survivors a stake in his holy placeyes, our God has cheered us up and given us a little relief from our slavery. 9Because we are slaves, yet our God hasn’t abandoned us in our slavery, but he’s used his loyal commitment to us to influence the Persian king to give to us breathing space to rebuild the house of our God from its ruins, and to give to us a ‘wall of protection’ in Yerushalem and across Yehudah.

10So now, our God, what can we say after that? We’ve abandoned your instructions 11which you gave us via your servants, the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you’re all entering to occupy is a land of impurity, due to the impurity of the current inhabitants with their evil practices that have filled it from one end to the other with their filth. 12So now, don’t give your daughters to their sons to marry, or vice versa. And don’t try to make long-term peace treaties or contracts with them. Then you all will stay in power, and eat the good things of the land, and be able to pass it on to your children for all their future generations.’[ref]

13“Yet after everything that’s happened to us as a result our evil actions and our great guilt (even though you, our God, didn’t punish us as harshly as you could have, and you’ve allowed us to survive as we’re here now), 14should we return to disobeying your instructions and to intermarrying with those people groups with their evil practices? You’d rightfully be angry enough with us as to wipe us out completely without leaving any remnant or survivors? 15Yahweh, the God of Israel, you always do what is right, because here we are as survivors even to this day. So, yes, here we are standing in front of you in our guilt, because none of us are innocent enough to stand in front of you because of what we’ve done.”


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Exo 34:11-16:

11Be sure to obey what I’m telling you today. See, I’m about to force the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Yebusites out of the land ahead of you. 12Be very careful not to make any treaties with any of the current inhabitants of the land that you’re about to enter, in case it ends up trapping you. 13What you must do instead is to break down their altars and smash their pillars, and cut down the poles used to worship their god Asherah.[ref] 14You must not bow down to any other god because Yahweh is a jealous God—jealous to protect his name. 15So don’t make an agreement with the inhabitants of the land, because when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, and then they invite you to join them and you eat some of their sacrifice, 16then you’ll end up by allowing your sons to marry their daughters who’ll prostitute themselves to their gods, and then your sons will do the same.


34:13: Deu 16:21.

Deu 7:1-5:

7[ref] 2 3 4 5[ref]


7:1: Acts 13:19.

7:5: Deu 12:3.