1
Now when thesethings had been completed, the princesapproached me, saying, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.
2
"For they have takensome of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holyrace has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have beenforemost in thisunfaithfulness."
4
Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel on account of the unfaithfulness of the exilesgathered to me, and I satappalleduntil the eveningoffering.
5
But at the eveningoffering I arose from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robetorn, and I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the LORD my God;