1 Esdras 8:78-80

Common English Bible

⁷⁸ so that they’ve given us provisions, honored the Lord’s temple, and rebuilt the ruins of Zion, to give us a solid place in Judea and Jerusalem.

⁷⁹ Now that we have these things, what will we say, Lord? We have violated your commandments, which you gave by your servants the prophets: ⁸⁰ “The land that you are about to possess is a land polluted with the foreigners of the land. The foreigners have filled it with their impurity.