Ezr 9:15
“O LORD God of Israel,
You are righteous,
for we have been left an escaped remnant,
as it is this day;
behold, we are before You in our guilt,
for no one can stand before You because of this.”

Ezra declares the Lord is righteous.
The Lord had granted them “an escaped remnant”.
Still, they were guilty before they Lord.
They had sinned.
No one could stand before the Lord because of this sin.

What were they to do?

The next verse shows us how the people reacted…

Ezr 10:1
Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women and children, gathered to him from Israel;
for the people wept bitterly.

One man praying, making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God moved the people.

They gathered in a very large assembly.
They came from all over the land.
They wept bitterly.

They all knew they had sinned.
They were repenting, weeping bitterly.

But, what to do now?
Was there something to be done?

The Lord will always show us what to do…as we will see later…

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