The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in
Jerusalem.
EZR 9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have
forsaken thy commandments,
EZR 9:11 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets,
saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land
with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations,
which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
EZR 9:12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither
take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their
wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land,
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