eh'-rets
from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth
(at large, or partitively a land):--X common, country, earth,
field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Hear [08085], O our God [0430]; for we are despised [0939]: and turn [07725] their reproach [02781] upon their own head [07218], and give [05414] them for a prey [0961] in the land [0776] of captivity [07633]:despised: Heb. despite
Moreover from the time [03117] that I was appointed [06680] to be their governor [06346] in the land [0776] of Judah [03063], from the twentieth [06242] year [08141] even unto the two [08147] and thirtieth [07970] year [08141] of Artaxerxes [0783] the king [04428], that is, twelve [06240] [08147] years [08141], I and my brethren [0251] have not eaten [0398] the bread [03899] of the governor [06346].
And Ezra [05830] blessed [01288] the Lord [03068], the great [01419] God [0430]. And all the people [05971] answered [06030], Amen [0543], Amen [0543], with lifting up [04607] their hands [03027]: and they bowed [06915] their heads, and worshipped [07812] the Lord [03068] with their faces [0639] to the ground [0776].
Thou, even thou, art Lord [03068] alone; thou hast made [06213] heaven [08064], the heaven [08064] of heavens [08064], with all their host [06635], the earth [0776], and all things that are therein, the seas [03220], and all that is therein, and thou preservest [02421] them all; and the host [06635] of heaven [08064] worshippeth [07812] thee.
And foundest [04672] his heart [03824] faithful [0539] before [06440] thee, and madest [03772] a covenant [01285] with him to give [05414] the land [0776] of the Canaanites [03669], the Hittites [02850], the Amorites [0567], and the Perizzites [06522], and the Jebusites [02983], and the Girgashites [01622], to give [05414] it, I say, to his seed [02233], and hast performed [06965] thy words [01697]; for thou art righteous [06662]:
And shewedst [05414] signs [0226] and wonders [04159] upon Pharaoh [06547], and on all his servants [05650], and on all the people [05971] of his land [0776]: for thou knewest [03045] that they dealt proudly [02102] against them. So didst thou get [06213] thee a name [08034], as it is this day [03117].
And gavest [05414] them bread [03899] from heaven [08064] for their hunger [07458], and broughtest forth [03318] water [04325] for them out of the rock [05553] for their thirst [06772], and promisedst [0559] them that they should go in [0935] to possess [03423] the land [0776] which thou hadst sworn [05375] [03027] to give [05414] them.which…: Heb. which thou hadst lift up thine hand to give them
Moreover thou gavest [05414] them kingdoms [04467] and nations [05971], and didst divide [02505] them into corners [06285]: so they possessed [03423] the land [0776] of Sihon [05511], and the land [0776] of the king [04428] of Heshbon [02809], and the land [0776] of Og [05747] king [04428] of Bashan [01316].
Their children [01121] also multipliedst [07235] thou as the stars [03556] of heaven [08064], and broughtest [0935] them into the land [0776], concerning which thou hadst promised [0559] to their fathers [01], that they should go in [0935] to possess [03423] it.
So the children [01121] went in [0935] and possessed [03423] the land [0776], and thou subduedst [03665] before [06440] them the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776], the Canaanites [03669], and gavest [05414] them into their hands [03027], with their kings [04428], and the people [05971] of the land [0776], that they might do [06213] with them as they would [07522].as they…: Heb. according to their will
Yet many [07227] years [08141] didst thou forbear [04900] them, and testifiedst [05749] against them by thy spirit [07307] in [03027] thy prophets [05030]: yet would they not give ear [0238]: therefore gavest [05414] thou them into the hand [03027] of the people [05971] of the lands [0776].forbear…: Heb. protract over themin thy…: Heb. in the hand of thy prophets
For they have not served [05647] thee in their kingdom [04438], and in thy great [07227] goodness [02898] that thou gavest [05414] them, and in the large [07342] and fat [08082] land [0776] which thou gavest [05414] before [06440] them, neither turned [07725] they from their wicked [07451] works [04611].
Behold, we are servants [05650] this day [03117], and for the land [0776] that thou gavest [05414] unto our fathers [01] to eat [0398] the fruit [06529] thereof and the good [02898] thereof, behold, we are servants [05650] in it:
And the rest [07605] of the people [05971], the priests [03548], the Levites [03881], the porters [07778], the singers [07891], the Nethinims [05411], and all they that had separated [0914] themselves from the people [05971] of the lands [0776] unto the law [08451] of God [0430], their wives [0802], their sons [01121], and their daughters [01323], every one having knowledge [03045], and having understanding [0995];
And that we would not give [05414] our daughters [01323] unto the people [05971] of the land [0776], nor take [03947] their daughters [01323] for our sons [01121]:
And if the people [05971] of the land [0776] bring [0935] ware [04728] or any victuals [07668] on the sabbath [07676] day [03117] to sell [04376], that we would not buy [03947] it of them on the sabbath [07676], or on the holy [06944] day [03117]: and that we would leave [05203] the seventh [07637] year [08141], and the exaction [04853] of every debt [03027].every…: Heb. every hand