Thematic Bible: Ezra rebukes the people
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Rebuke » Appointed by God corrupt » Ezra rebukes the people
And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;
And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered;
And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have taken foreign wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. And now make confession to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign wives.
Sin » For punishments, ancient modes of reacts » Ezra rebukes the people
And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;
And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered;
And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have taken foreign wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. And now make confession to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign wives.