2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 197
8 : E Z R A
Hebr. life,
Ezra 9:8.
A R R I V E S
I N
Y E R U S A L E M
us food in the time of our
servitude.
80 Yes, when we were in
bondage, we were not forsaken
of our Yahuah; but he made
us gracious before the Kings
of Persia, so that they gave us
food;
81 Yes, and honored the
Temple of our Yahuah, and
raised up the desolate Sion,
that they have given us a
sure abiding in Yahudea, and
Yerusalem.
82 And now, O Yahuah, what
shall we say having these things?
For we have transgressed your
Commandments, which you
gave by the hand of your
servants the Prophets, saying,
83 That the land which you
enter into to possess as an
heritage, is a land polluted
with the pollutions of the
strangers of the land, and
they have filled it with their
uncleanness.
84 Therefore now shall you
not join your daughters unto
their sons, neither shall you
take their daughters unto your
sons.
85 Moreover you shall never
seek to have peace with them,
that you may be strong, and
eat the good things of the land,
and that you may leave the
inheritance of the land unto
your children for evermore.
W I T H
R E B U K E
86 And all that is befallen, is
done unto us for our wicked
works, and great sins: for you,
O Yahuah, did make our sins
light:
87 And did give unto us such a
root: but we have turned back
again to transgress your Law,
and to mingle ourselves with
the uncleanness of the nations
of the land.
88 May you not be angry with
us to destroy us, til you had
left us neither root, seed, nor Or, be not
angry.
name?
89 O Yahuah of Israel, you
are true: for we are left a root
this day.
90 Behold, now are we before
you in our iniquities, for we
cannot stand any longer by
reason of these things before
you.
The Plan for Ending
Mixed Marriages
91 And as Ezra in his
prayer made his confession,
weeping, and lying flat
upon the ground before the
Temple, there gathered unto
him from Yerusalem, a very
great multitude of men,
and women, and children:
for there was great weeping
among the multitude.
92 Then Shecaniah son of
Yehiel, one of the sons of
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