let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, on behalf of the sons of Israel Your servants, confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You; I and my father’s house have sinned.

Next to him Uzziel the son of Harhaiah of the goldsmiths made repairs. And next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, the official of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.

At whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”

So I contended with them and cursed them and struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”