1 Esdras 8:85

85 do not seek ever to have peace with them, so that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'

1 Esdras 8:85 In-Context

83 "The land that you are entering to take possession of is a land polluted with the pollution of the aliens of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

84 Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their descendants, and do not take their daughters for your descendants;

85 do not seek ever to have peace with them, so that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'

86 And all that has happened to us has come about because of our evil deeds and our great sins. For you, O Lord, lifted the burden of our sins

87 and gave us such a root as this; but we turned back again to transgress your law by mixing with the uncleanness of the peoples of the land.