Ezra 9:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹ Even though we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. Instead, he has extended gracious love to us in the presence of the kings of Persia, to grant us revival, to set up the Temple of our God, to repair its damage, and to give us a protective wall for Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Now, our God, what can we say besides this? Because we have abandoned your commandments ¹¹ that you gave in the writings^[a] of your servants, the prophets:

‘The land you are entering to possess is a morally unclean land due to the moral uncleanness of the people who live in there—along with their abominations—that has filled it from one end to the other with their impurities.