It greatly displeased me, so I threw all of Tobiah’s household goods outside of the storeroom
While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and prostrating himself before the House of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. The people also wept very bitterly.
and commanded the storerooms to be cleansed. Then I restored the utensils of the House of God, the offerings and the frankincense.
I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.
I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s children.