Wisdom & Truth Verses

So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, {and} of gold an hundred talents;

And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

By number {and} by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over {our} head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. {trespass: or, guiltiness}

And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities {deserve}, and hast given us {such} deliverance as this; {hast punished...: Heb. hast withheld beneath our iniquities}

Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

But the people {are} many, and {it is} a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither {is this} a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing. {we are many...: or, we have greatly offended in this thing}

And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

Benjamin, Malluch, {and} Shemariah.