1 Esdras 8:90-92

Revised Standard Version

⁹⁰ Behold, we are now before thee in our iniquities; for we can no longer stand in thy presence because of these things.”

The Plan for Ending Mixed Marriages

⁹¹ While Ezra was praying and making his confession, weeping and lying upon the ground before the temple, there gathered about him a very great throng from Jerusalem, men and women and youths; for there was great weeping among the multitude. ⁹² Then Shecani′ah the son of Jehi′el, one of the men of Israel, called out, and said to Ezra, “We have sinned against the Lord, and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but even now there is hope for Israel.