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Book of Ezra, Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 of EzraNew World Translation (NWT)



  1. ¶ And as soon as these things were finished, the princes1 approached me, saying: “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated2 themselves from the peoples of the lands as regards their detestable things,3 namely, the Caʹnaan·ites,4 the Hitʹtites,5 the Perʹiz·zites,6 the Jebʹu·sites,7 the Amʹmon·ites,8 the Moʹab·ites,9 the Egyptians10 and the Amʹor·ites.11
  2. For they have accepted some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons;12 and they, the holy seed,13 have become mingled14 with the peoples of the lands, and the hand15 of the princes and the deputy rulers has proved to be foremost16 in this unfaithfulness.”
  3. ¶ Now as soon as I heard of this thing I ripped apart my garment17 and my sleeveless coat, and I began to pull out some of the hair of my head18 and of my beard, and I kept sitting stunned.19
  4. Also to me they came gathering themselves, everyone trembling20 because of the words of the God of Israel against the unfaithfulness of the exiled people, while I was sitting stunned until the grain offering of the evening.21
  5. ¶ And at the grain offering22 of the evening I stood up from my humiliation, with my garment and my sleeveless coat torn apart, and I proceeded to kneel upon my knees23 and spread out my palms to Jehovah my God.24
  6. And I went on to say:25 “O my God, I do feel ashamed26 and embarrassed27 to raise my face to you, O my God, for our errors28 themselves have multiplied over our head and our guiltiness has grown great even to the heavens.29
  7. From the days of our forefathers30 we have been in great guiltiness until this day;31 and because of our errors we have been given, we ourselves, our kings,32 our priests,33 into the hand of the kings of the lands with the sword,34 with the captivity35 and with the plunder36 and with shame of face,37 just as this day.
  8. And now for a little moment favor38 from Jehovah our God has come by leaving over for us those who escape39 and by giving us a peg[a] in his holy place, to make our eyes shine,40 O our God, and to give us a little reviving in our servitude.41
  9. For we are servants;42 and in our servitude our God has not left us,43 but he extends toward us loving-kindness before the kings of Persia,44 to give us a reviving so as to raise up the house of our God45 and to restore its desolated places46 and to give us a stone wall47 in Judah and in Jerusalem.
  10. ¶ “And now what shall we say, O our God, after this? For we have left your commandments,48
  11. which you commanded by means of your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that YOU people are going in to take possession of is an impure land because of the impurity of the peoples of the lands,49 because of their detestable things50 with which they have filled it from end51 to end by their uncleanness.52
  12. And now YOUR daughters do not YOU people give to their sons,53 neither their daughters do YOU accept for YOUR sons; and to time indefinite YOU must not work for their peace54 and their prosperity,[b] in order that YOU may grow strong55 and certainly eat the good of the land and indeed take possession [of it] for YOUR sons to time indefinite.’56
  13. And after all that has come upon us for our bad deeds57 and our great guiltiness—for you yourself, O our God, have underestimated our error,58 and you have given us those who have escaped such as these59
  14. shall we go breaking your commandments again and forming marriage alliances60 with the peoples of these detestable things?61 Will you not get incensed at us to the limit62 so that there will be none remaining63 and none escaping?
  15. O Jehovah the God of Israel, you are righteous,64 because we have been left over as an escaped people as at this day. Here we are before you in our guiltiness,65 for it is impossible to stand before you on account of this.”66


FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Likely, “a remnant,” one Heb. ms and by a slight correction of M (from ya·thedhʹ to yeʹther).
  2. ^ Lit., “their good.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ezr 10:8, 14
  2. ^ Ex 33:16; Ezr 6:21; Ne 9:2
  3. ^ Le 20:23; De 12:30; 18:9
  4. ^ Ge 10:19; Nu 13:29
  5. ^ Ge 10:15; Jos 1:4
  6. ^ Jos 11:3; 17:15
  7. ^ Jos 18:16
  8. ^ Ge 19:38; De 23:3
  9. ^ Ge 19:37
  10. ^ Le 18:3
  11. ^ Ge 15:16; Jg 11:22
  12. ^ Ex 34:16
  13. ^ Ex 19:6; 22:31; De 7:6
  14. ^ Ne 13:3; 2Co 6:14
  15. ^ Ezr 10:44
  16. ^ 1Pe 5:3
  17. ^ Jos 7:6; 2Ki 22:19
  18. ^ Ne 13:25
  19. ^ Ps 143:4
  20. ^ Ezr 10:3
  21. ^ Ex 29:41; Da 9:21
  22. ^ Nu 28:5
  23. ^ Ps 95:6; Lu 22:41; Ac 21:5; Eph 3:14
  24. ^ Ex 9:29; Ps 143:6
  25. ^ Jm 5:16
  26. ^ Jb 40:4
  27. ^ Da 9:7
  28. ^ Ezr 9:2; Ps 38:4; 106:6; Is 1:18; 59:12
  29. ^ Lu 15:21; Re 18:5
  30. ^ Nu 32:14; 2Ch 29:6; Ac 7:51
  31. ^ La 5:7
  32. ^ Da 9:8
  33. ^ Ne 9:32
  34. ^ 2Ki 10:32; 1Ch 5:22; 2Ch 36:17
  35. ^ 2Ki 17:23; 25:6
  36. ^ 2Ki 17:20
  37. ^ Da 9:7
  38. ^ Ne 9:31
  39. ^ Is 1:9
  40. ^ Ps 13:3
  41. ^ Ps 138:7
  42. ^ Ne 9:36
  43. ^ De 30:1
  44. ^ Ezr 1:1
  45. ^ Ezr 6:14; Zc 4:9
  46. ^ 2Ch 36:19
  47. ^ Is 5:2, 5
  48. ^ Le 27:34; Nu 36:13
  49. ^ Le 18:24; De 12:31
  50. ^ Le 18:3; De 18:9
  51. ^ 2Ki 21:16
  52. ^ Eze 36:25; 2Co 7:1
  53. ^ Ex 23:32; 34:16; De 7:3; Jos 23:12
  54. ^ De 23:6; 2Ch 19:2
  55. ^ De 6:2
  56. ^ Ge 18:19; Ps 112:2; Pr 13:22; 20:7
  57. ^ Ne 9:32
  58. ^ Ps 103:10; La 3:22, 39
  59. ^ Ps 106:46
  60. ^ Ne 13:23
  61. ^ Ezr 9:1
  62. ^ De 9:8; Ro 2:5
  63. ^ De 32:26; Is 1:9; Eze 6:8
  64. ^ Ne 9:33; Ps 96:13; Da 9:7
  65. ^ Ro 3:19
  66. ^ Ps 130:3; 143:2

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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