9

Ezra Chapter 9

1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of

2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers,

3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law

4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani,

5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah,

6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven

7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest

11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went

12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in

13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them

16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks,

18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy

20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and

21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so

22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide

23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and

24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou

25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses

26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,

27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies,

28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee:

30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against

31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly

32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible

33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou

35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great

36 Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou

38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it;