Ezra 9:10

Young's Literal Translation

`And now, what do we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken Thy commands,

Parallel Translations

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

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

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,

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 And at the present of the evening I have risen from mine affliction, and at my rending my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God, ⁶ and say, `O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens. <sup>7</sup> `From the days of our fathers we [are] in great guilt unto this day, and in our iniquities we have been given -- we, our kings, our priests -- into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as [at] this day. ⁸ `And now, as a small moment hath grace been from Jehovah our God, to leave to us an escape, and to give to us a nail in His holy place, by our God's enlightening our eyes, and by giving us a little quickening in our servitude; <sup>9</sup> for servants we [are], and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. <sup>10</sup> `And now, what do we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken Thy commands, ¹¹ that Thou hast commanded by the hands of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land into which ye are going to possess it, [is] a land of impurity, by the impurity of the people of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it -- from mouth unto mouth -- by their uncleanness; ¹² and now, your daughters ye do not give to their sons, and their daughters ye do not take to your sons, and ye do not seek their peace, and their good -- unto the age, so that ye are strong, and have eaten the good of the land, and given possession to your sons unto the age. ¹³ `And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this), ¹⁴ do we turn back to break Thy commands, and to join ourselves in marriage with the people of these abominations? art not Thou angry against us -- even to consumption -- till there is no remnant and escaped part?

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
And God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which [are] with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

Genesis 9:1
And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

Genesis 9:5
`And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

Genesis 9:6
whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

Genesis 9:15
and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;

Genesis 9:16
and the bow hath been in the cloud, and I have seen it -- to remember the covenant age-during between God and every living creature among all flesh which [is] on the earth.'

Psalms 145:9
Good [is] Jehovah to all, And His mercies [are] over all His works.

Jonah 4:11
and I -- have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left -- and 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!