Ezra 9:10
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
Ezra 9:10 in other translations
| BSB | And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments |
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| WEB | “Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, |
| ASV | And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, |
| YLT | ‘And now, what do we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken Thy commands, |
| DARBY | And now, what shall we say, our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, |
| BBE | And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws, |
| Webster | And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, |
What does Ezra 9:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezra 9:5-15
Ezr 9:5-15. Prays to God. 5-15. I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God--The burden of his prayer, which was dictated by a deep sense of the emergency, was that he was overwhelmed at the flagrant enormity of this sin, and the bold impiety of continuing in it after having, as a people, so recently experienced the heavy marks of the divine displeasure. God had begun to show returning favor…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezra 9:5-15
The sacrifice, especially the evening sacrifice, was a type of the blessed Lamb of God, who in the evening of the world, was to take away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Ezra's address is a penitent confession of sin, the sin of his people. But let this be the comfort of true penitents, that though their sins reach to the heavens, God's mercy is in the heavens. Ezra, speaking of sin, speaks as one much ashamed…
Ezra 9:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezra 9:10
- Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
- Joshua 7:8
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
- Lamentations 3:22
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
- Daniel 9:4-16
And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. …
- Genesis 44:16
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
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- Ezra 9:9
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 9:10
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
- Ezra 9:11
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
Ezra 9:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas ahora, ¿qué diremos, oh Dios nuestro, después de esto? porque nosotros hemos dejado tus mandamientos, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et maintenant, ô notre Dieu, que dirons-nous après cela? Car nous avons abandonné tes commandements, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und nun, unser Gott, was sollen wir nach diesem sagen? Denn wir haben deine Gebote verlassen, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et nunc quid dicemus, Deus noster, post hæc? Quia dereliquimus mandata tua, |