The People Confess Their Sin

Ezra 10: 1-2 & 7 & 10-12 & 17

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 children for the people wept very sore.

 2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

7  And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel

11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure : and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

12 Then all the congregation answered and said loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.