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Psalm 119:53

New American Bible - revised edition

Rage seizes me because of the wicked; they forsake your law.

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Then Ezra left his place before the house of God and entered the chamber of Johanan, son of Eliashib, where he spent the night neither eating food nor drinking water, for he was in mourning over the apostasy of the exiles.

shall we again violate your commandments by intermarrying with these abominable peoples? Would you not become so angered with us as to destroy us without remnant or survivor?

When I had heard this, I tore my cloak and my mantle, plucked hair from my head and beard, and sat there devastated.

So I reprimanded and cursed them; I beat some of their men and pulled out their hair; and I adjured them by God: “You shall not marry your daughters to their sons nor accept any of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves!

I was extremely angry when I heard the reasons for their complaint.

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not observed.

I view the faithless with loathing because they do not heed your promise.

I will establish his dynasty forever, his throne as the days of the heavens.

If you do not listen to this in your pride, I will weep many tears in secret; My eyes will run with tears for the Lord’s flock, led away to exile.

you are that tree, O king, large and strong! Your majesty has become so great as to touch the heavens, and your rule reaches to the ends of the earth.

I hear, and my body trembles; at the sound, my lips quiver. Decay invades my bones, my legs tremble beneath me. I await the day of distress that will come upon the people who attack us.

I fear that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness they practiced.

For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ.




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