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And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
