At Jerusalem’s assembly, weeping worshippers give guilty families three days to appear and answer for marrying foreign women.
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Lyrics
Now while Ezra prayed and made confession Weeping and casting himself down before God’s house There was gathered together to him out of Israel A very great assembly of men and women and children
For the people wept very bitterly Shecaniah the son of Jehiel answered Ezra We have trespassed against our God And have married foreign women of the peoples of the land
Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God To put away all the wives and those who are born of them According to the counsel of my lord
Arise, for the matter belongs to you And we are with you Be courageous, and do it
Make confession to the LORD Make confession to the LORD The God of your fathers Do his pleasure
Then Ezra arose and made the chiefs of the priests The Levites and all Israel to swear That they would do according to this word So they swore
Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house And went into the room of Jehohanan He did not eat bread or drink water For he mourned because of the trespass
Make confession to the LORD Make confession to the LORD Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land From the foreign women
Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice We must do as you have said concerning us But the people are many and it is much rain This is not a work of one day or two
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