Ezra 9:10

Hebrew Names Version

Now, our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your mitzvot,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now, our God, what can we say in light of this? For we have abandoned the commands

King James Version
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

English Standard Version
"And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

New Century Version
"But now, our God, what can we say after you have done all this? We have disobeyed your commands

New English Translation
"And now what are we able to say after this, our God? For we have forsaken your commandments

Amplified Bible
"Now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have abandoned (turned away from) Your commandments,

New American Standard Bible
"And now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have abandoned Your commandments,

World English Bible
Now, our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your commandments,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And nowe, our God, what shal we say after this? for we haue forsaken thy commandements,

Legacy Standard Bible
"So now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments,

Berean Standard Bible
And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments

Contemporary English Version
Our God, what can we say now? Even after all this, we have disobeyed the commands

Complete Jewish Bible
"But now, our God, what are we to say after this? For we have abandoned your mitzvot,

Darby Translation
And now, what shall we say, our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Now, God, what can we say to you? We have stopped obeying you again.

George Lamsa Translation
And now, O our God, what shall we say after all these things? For we have forsaken thy commandments

Good News Translation
"But now, O God, what can we say after all that has happened? We have again disobeyed the commands

Lexham English Bible
"And now our God what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

Literal Translation
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O oure God, what shall we saye now after this? that we haue forsaken thy commaundementes,

American Standard Version
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Bible in Basic English
And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And nowe O our God, what shall we say after this? for we haue forsaken thy commaundementes,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken Thy commandments,

King James Version (1611)
And now, O our God, what shal we say after this? for we haue forsaken thy commandements,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
What shall we say, our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

English Revised Version
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now, `oure Lord God, what schulen we seie after these thingis? For we han forsake thi comaundementis,

Update Bible Version
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your commandments,

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

New King James Version
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments,

New Living Translation
"And now, O our God, what can we say after all of this? For once again we have abandoned your commands!

New Life Bible
And now, our God, what should we say after this? For we have turned away from Your Laws,

New Revised Standard
"And now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, now, what can we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Revised Standard Version
"And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken thy commandments,

Young's Literal Translation
`And now, what do we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken Thy commands,

THE MESSAGE
"And now, our God, after all this what can we say for ourselves? For we have thrown your commands to the wind, the commands you gave us through your servants the prophets. They told us, ‘The land you're taking over is a polluted land, polluted with the obscene vulgarities of the people who live there; they've filled it with their moral rot from one end to the other. Whatever you do, don't give your daughters in marriage to their sons nor marry your sons to their daughters. Don't cultivate their good opinion; don't make over them and get them to like you so you can make a lot of money and build up a tidy estate to hand down to your children.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments,

Contextual Overview

⁵ At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God; ⁶ and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens. ⁷ Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our Kohanim, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. ⁸ Now for a little moment grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. ⁹ For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Paras, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Yehudah and in Yerushalayim. ¹⁰ Now, our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your mitzvot, ¹¹ which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness: ¹² now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their shalom or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. ¹³ After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant, ¹⁴ shall we again break your mitzvot, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

what shall we say: Genesis 44:16, Joshua 7:8, Lamentations 3:22, Daniel 9:4-16, Romans 3:19

Reciprocal: Judges 2:2 - but ye have 2 Kings 21:9 - they hearkened Isaiah 38:15 - What Jeremiah 9:13 - General Daniel 9:10 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
God remembered Noach, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the teivah; and God made a wind to pass over the eretz. The waters subsided.

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the eretz.

Genesis 9:5
I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

Genesis 9:15
and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 9:16
The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the eretz."

Psalms 145:9
The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

Jonah 4:11
Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, O our God, what shall we say after this?.... What apology or excuse can be made for such ingratitude? what can be said in favour of such a people? what kindness can be expected to be shown to a people who had behaved in so base a manner?

for we have forsaken thy commandments: particularly those which related to marriages with people of other nations.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 9:10. What shall we say after this? — Even in the midst of these beginnings of respite and mercy we have begun to provoke thee anew!