Ezra 9:13
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“What has happened to us is a result of our evil deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins deserved and have given us a remnant like this.
Read Ezra 9:13 Using Other Translations
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,
“Now we are being punished because of our wickedness and our great guilt. But we have actually been punished far less than we deserve, for you, our God, have allowed some of us to survive as a remnant.
What does Ezra 9:13 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Ezra 9:13
from captivity, which they now enjoyed.
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and
for
our great trespass
As famine, sword, pestilence, and captivity, for their idolatries
and other heinous sins:
seeing that our God hast punished us less than our
iniquities deserve;
for they deserved eternal punishment, whereas it was temporal
punishment that was inflicted, and this moderate, and now
stopped; the sense is, according to Aben Ezra,
``thou hast refrained from writing some of our sins in the book of remembrance, and thou hast let them down below in the earth, according to the sense of thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea;''but Jarchi better,
``thou hast refrained thyself from exacting of us all our sins, and hast exacted of us beneath our sins (or less than they deserve), and hast not taken vengeance on us according to all our sins:''and hast given us such deliverance as this;
from captivity, which they now enjoyed.
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