87
And didst give unto us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress thy law, and to mingle ourselves with the uncleanness of the nations of the land.
88
Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us, till thou hadst left us neither root, seed, nor name?
89
O Lord of Israel, thou art true: for we are left a root this day.
90
Behold, now are we before thee in our iniquities, for we cannot stand any longer by reason of these things before thee.
91
And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered unto him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.