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Ezra 7:27-28
New Catholic Bible
Ezra 7:27-28
New Catholic Bible
27 Ezra and His Companions. Then Ezra said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has influenced the heart of the king in this way to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, 28 and who permitted me to be granted the faithful love of the king and his counselors and all the most powerful of the king’s officials. Because the hand of the Lord, my God was upon me, I assembled those Israelite leaders to accompany me.”[a]
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- Ezra 7:28 This prayer of thanks and praise is Ezra’s way of completely acknowledging his dependence on God, without whom he would not have attained his state in life.
