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Yet you were not angry enough to destroy us completely and leave none of us alive, with no descendants and without our name.
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Lord of Israel, you are faithful; you have allowed us to survive.
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We confess our guilt to you; we have no right to come into your presence."
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While Ezra was bowing in prayer in front of the Temple, weeping and confessing these sins, a large group of people from Jerusalem - men, women, and children - gathered around him, all of them weeping bitterly.
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Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the Israelites, said to Ezra, "We have sinned against the Lord by marrying foreign women, but even so, there is still hope for Israel.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.