Ezra’s Prayer

9 After these things had been ·done [completed], the ·leaders [officials] came to me and said, “Ezra, the Israelites, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the people ·around us [^Lof the land]. Those neighbors ·do [practice] ·evil [detestable; abominable] things, as the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites did. ² ·The Israelite men and their sons [^LThey] have ·married [^Ltaken] these women. They have ·mixed [intermingled] the ·people who belong to God [^Lholy race] with the people ·around them [^Lof the land]. The leaders and ·officers of Israel [officials] have led the rest of the Israelites to do this unfaithful thing.”