Ezra 10:9-11

Living Bible

⁹ Within three days, on the fifth day of December,^[a] all the men of Judah and Benjamin had arrived and were sitting in the open space before the Temple; and they were trembling because of the seriousness of the matter and because of the heavy rainfall. ¹⁰ Then I, Ezra the priest, arose and addressed them:

“You have sinned, for you have married heathen women; now we are even more deeply under God’s condemnation than we were before. ¹¹ Confess your sin to the Lord God of your fathers and do what he demands: separate yourselves from the heathen people about you and from these women.”