Esdras 9:1

A Oração de Esdras

1 Depois que foram feitas essas coisas, os líderes vieram dizer-me: “O povo de Israel, inclusive os sacerdotes e os levitas, não se mantiveram separados dos povos vizinhos e de suas práticas repugnantes, como as dos cananeus, dos hititas, dos ferezeus, dos jebuseus, dos amonitas, dos moabitas, dos egípcios e dos amorreus.

Esdras 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 9:1

Now when these things were done
When the captives with Ezra had refreshed themselves, and weighed the money and vessels they brought, and put them into the hands of proper persons, and offered sacrifices, and delivered the king's commissions to his lieutenants and governors, and shown his own:

the princes came to me;
some of the nobles of Israel, the most religious of them, who were concerned at the corruptions that were among them, though not a sufficient number to reform them:

saying the people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not
separated themselves from the people of the land:
but joined with them, though not in idolatrous practices, yet by marrying with them, which might lead them into them:

doing according to their abominations;
not serving idols as they did, but imitating them in their marriages: even

of the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the
Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;
affinity with many of these was forbidden by an express law, ( Deuteronomy 7:1 Deuteronomy 7:3 ) all but the Moabites, Ammonites, and Egyptians, and from these for the same reason they were to abstain; namely, lest they should be drawn into idolatry; that the priests and Levites should do this, who ought to have known the law, and instructed the people better, was very sad and shocking.

Esdras 9:1 In-Context

1 Depois que foram feitas essas coisas, os líderes vieram dizer-me: “O povo de Israel, inclusive os sacerdotes e os levitas, não se mantiveram separados dos povos vizinhos e de suas práticas repugnantes, como as dos cananeus, dos hititas, dos ferezeus, dos jebuseus, dos amonitas, dos moabitas, dos egípcios e dos amorreus.

2 Eles e seus filhos se casaram com mulheres daqueles povos e com eles misturaram a descendência santa. E os líderes e os oficiais estão à frente nessa atitude infiel!”

3 Quando ouvi isso, rasguei a minha túnica e o meu manto, arranquei os cabelos da cabeça e da barba e me sentei estarrecido!

4 Então todos os que tremiam diante das palavras do Deus de Israel reuniram-se ao meu redor por causa da infidelidade dos exilados. E eu fiquei sentado ali, estarrecido, até o sacrifício da tarde.

5 Então, na hora do sacrifício da tarde, eu saí do meu abatimento, com a túnica e o manto rasgados, e caí de joelhos com as mãos estendidas para o SENHOR, o meu Deus,