87. and did give to us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land.
88. You was not angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name.
89. O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day.
90. Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.
91. And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.
92. Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.