The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
EZR 9:14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity
with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with
us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor
escaping?
EZR 9:15 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet
escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our
trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
EZR 10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping
and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto
him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and
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