The People Confess Their Sin
1 While Ezra prayed and made sconfession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
6 klet your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, lconfessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.
2 And the Israelites1 iseparated themselves from all foreigners and stood and jconfessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Gabriel Brings an Answer
20 zWhile I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God,
