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Ezra 9:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

should we break your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit these detestable practices?  Wouldn’t you become so angry with us that you would destroy us, leaving neither remnant nor survivor?

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You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.


Indeed, the Israelite men  have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed  has become mixed with the surrounding peoples.  The leaders  and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness! ’


Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven.  Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”


What should we say then?  Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?


After this, Jesus found him in the temple  and said to him, ‘See, you are well. Do not sin any more, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.’


You are not to make a covenant  with the inhabitants of this land. You are to tear down their altars.  But you have not obeyed me. What have you done?


‘Get away from this community so that I may consume them instantly.’  But they fell face down.


‘Separate yourselves from this community so I may consume them instantly.’


Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.’


‘Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.


And you, my servant Jacob, do not be afraid – this is the  Lord’s declaration – for I will be with you. I will bring destruction on all the nations where I have banished you, but I will not bring destruction on you. I will discipline you with justice, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.


If the Lord of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.


But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the Lord our God to preserve a remnant  for us and give us a stake  in his holy place. Even in our slavery, God has given us a little relief and light to our eyes.


You must not make a covenant  with them or their gods.


Then the priest Ezra stood up and said to them, ‘You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to Israel’s guilt.


Didn’t your ancestors do the same, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city?  And now you are rekindling his anger against Israel by profaning the Sabbath! ’


Have you forgotten the evils of your ancestors, the evils of Judah’s kings, the evils of their wives, your own evils, and the evils of your wives that were committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?





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