English Standard Version
Ezra 9:14
14shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Ezra 9:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
- New International Version (NIV)Shall we then break your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit such detestable practices? Would you not be angry enough with us to destroy us, leaving us no remnant or survivor?
- New King James Version (NKJV)should we again break Your commandments, and join in marriage with the people committing these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor?
- New Living Translation (NLT)But even so, we are again breaking your commands and intermarrying with people who do these detestable things. Won’t your anger be enough to destroy us, so that even this little remnant no longer survives?
Context of Ezra 9:14
12Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.' 13And 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, shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? 15O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."
Read all of Ezra 9Ezra 9:14 word by word
הֲנָשׁוּב֙ לְהָפֵ֣ר מִצְוֹתֶ֔יךָ וּ֨לְהִתְחַתֵּ֔ן בְּעַמֵּ֥י הַתֹּעֵב֖וֹת הָאֵ֑לֶּה הֲל֤וֹא תֶֽאֱנַף־בָּ֙נוּ֙ עַד־כַּלֵּ֔ה לְאֵ֥ין שְׁאֵרִ֖ית וּפְלֵיטָֽה׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Should we againשׁוּבshûb · to return: againH7725
- breakפָּרַרpârar · to breakH6565
- thy commandmentsמִצְוָהmitsvâh · commandmentH4687
- and join in affinityחָתַןchâthan · make oneself a daughter’s husbandH2859
- with the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- of these abominationsתּוֹעֵבַהtô‛êbah tô‛êbah · abominationH8441
- wouldest not thou be angryאָנַף'ânaph · be angryH599
- with us till thou hadst consumedכָּלָהkâlâh · to end: destroyH3615
- no remnantשְׁאֵרִיתshe'êrîyth · remnantH7611
- nor escapingפְּלֵיטָהpelêyţâh pelêţâh · survivorH6413
Cross-references for Ezra 9:14
- John 5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you."
- Romans 6:1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
- 2 Peter 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
- Ezra 9:2For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost."
- Exodus 23:32You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.
- Judges 2:2and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
- Nehemiah 13:23In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
- Exodus 32:10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
- Numbers 16:21"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
- Deuteronomy 9:8Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.
- Ezra 9:8But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.
- Deuteronomy 32:26I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,"
- Isaiah 1:9If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
- Jeremiah 46:28Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the Lord, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
- Ezekiel 6:8"Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Commentaries on Ezra 9:14
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-15Verses 5-15 The sacrifice, especially the evening sacrifice, was a type of the blessed Lamb of God, who in the evening of the world, was to take away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Ezra's address is a penitent confession of sin, the sin of his people. But let this be the comfort of true penitents, that though their sins reach to the heavens, God's mercy is in the heavens. Ezra, speaking of sin, speaks as one much ashamed. Holy shame is as necessary in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out?: The sin of marrying non-believers was so serious that they had no hope of survival if they did not repent.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-155-15. I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God--The burden of his prayer, which was dictated by a deep sense of the emergency, was that he was overwhelmed at the flagrant enormity of this sin, and the bold impiety of continuing in it after having, as a people, so recently experienced the heavy marks of the divine displeasure. God had begun to show returning favor to Israel by the restoration of some. But this only aggravated…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezra 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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