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Ezra 9:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

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And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.

And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.

Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

Have you no memory of the evil-doing of your fathers, and the evil-doing of the kings of Judah, and the evil-doing of their wives, and the evil which you yourselves have done, and the evil which your wives have done, in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.

But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?




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