4 Then all who etrembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the fevening sacrifice.
2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of tElam, addressed Ezra: “We have ubroken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
6 Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night,1 yneither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
10 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
