And on day the twentieth and fourth of this month, gathered together the sons of Israel for fasting, and with sackcloths and ashes upon their head.
And separated the sons of Israel from every son alien; and they stood and declared openly their sins, and the lawless deeds of their fathers.
And they stood in their position, and they read in the scroll of the law of the lord their God the fourth of the day. And they were declaring openly to the lord the fourth of the day, and doing obeisance to the lord their God.
And stood upon the ascent of the Levites, Jeshua, and the sons of Kadmiel, Secheniah son of Sherebiah son of Chenani. And they yelled voice with a great to the lord their God.
And said the Levites, Jeshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, Rise up, bless the lord our God from the eon and unto the eon! And they shall bless name glorious your, and shall raise it up high with all blessing and praise.
Ezra said, You are he, the lord alone. You made the heaven and the heaven of the heaven, and all their positions; the earth and all as much as is in it; the seas and all the things in them. And you restore to life all things; and to you do obeisance the militaries of the heavens.
You are, O lord, the God. You chose Abram, and you led him from the place of the Chaldeans, and placed unto him the name Abraham.
And you found his heart trustworthy before you, and you ordained with him a covenant, so as to give to him the land of the Canaanites, and Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and to give it to his seed. And you established your words, for you are just.
And you beheld the humiliation of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry you heard at sea the red.
And you gave signs and miracles in Egypt to Pharaoh, and among all his servants, and among all the people of his land, for you knew that they extolled themselves above them; and you made for yourself a name as it is this day.
And the sea you tore up before them, and they went in the midst of the sea in dryness; and the ones pursuing them you tossed into the bottom of the sea, as a stone in water vehement.
And in a column of cloud you guided them by day; and by a column of fire at night, to give light to them for the way in which they went by it.
And upon mount Sinai you went down and spoke to them from out of heaven, and you gave to them judgments right, and laws of truth, orders, and commandments good.
And your Sabbath your the holy you made known to them; commandments, and orders, and law, you gave charge to them by the hand of Moses your servant.
And bread from heaven you gave to them for their provision, and water from out of the rock you brought forth for them for their thirst. And you spoke to them to enter to inherit the land into which you stretched out your hand to give to them.
But they and our fathers were prideful, and they hardened their neck, and they did not hearken unto your commandments.
And they shook their heads in dissent to listen, and did not remember your wonders which you performed among them. And they hardened their neck, and they granted a sovereign to return to slavery them in Egypt. But you, O God, in forgiving sins are merciful and pitying, lenient and full of mercy, and did not abandon them.
And still also they made for themselves calf a molten. And they said, These are the gods, the ones leading us from Egypt. And they committed provocations to anger great.
And you in compassions your great did not abandon them in the wilderness. The column of the cloud did not turn aside from them by day to guide them in the way; and the column of the fire at night to give light to them in the way in which they went by it.
And your spirit your good gave a bringing of understanding to them, and your manna you did not withhold from their mouth, and water you gave to them in their thirst.
And forty years you nourished them in the wilderness, lacked not they one thing; their garments did not become old, and their sandals were not torn up.
And you gave them kingdoms, and peoples you divided to them. And they inherited the land of Sihon king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
And their sons you multiplied as the stars of the heaven, and brought them into the land which you spoke to their fathers, to enter and to inherit.
And entered their sons and inherited the land. And you obliterated before them the ones dwelling the land of the Canaanites, and you gave them into their hands, even their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do to them as was pleasing before them.
And they overtook cities high, and land fertile. And they inherited houses full of all good things, and pits for quarrying, vineyards and olive groves, and every tree of eatable things in multitude. And they ate, and were filled up, and were fattened, and indulged in goodness your the great.
And they changed and revolted from you. And they tossed your law behind their body, and your prophets they killed, the ones testifying to them to turn them towards you. And they made provocations to anger great.
And you gave them into the hand of ones afflicting them, and they afflicted them. And they yelled out to you in the time of their affliction, and you from out of your heaven heard, and in compassions your great you gave deliverers to them, and they delivered them from the hand of ones afflicting them.
And as they were caused to rest, they turned to act wickedly before you. And you abandoned them into the hands of their enemies, and they ruled among them. And again they yelled out to you. And you from out of heaven listened, and rescued them by compassions your abundant.
And you attested to them, to turn them to your law. But they acted superior, and hearkened not of your commandments. And in your judgments they sinned, (which doing them a man shall live by them); and they gave their back unto resisting persuasion, and their neck they hardened, and they did not hearken.
And you were long-suffering unto them years many, and drew out patience unto them years many, and attested to them by your spirit, by the hand of your prophets. But they did not give ear, and you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the land.
And you, in compassions your abundant did not appoint them to consummation, and you did not abandon them; for you are strong, and merciful, and pitying.
And now, O our God, the strong, the great, the fortified, and fearsome; guarding your covenant, and your mercy; do not let your attention be lessened before you concerning all the trouble which found us, and our kings, and our rulers, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and among all your people from the days of the kings of Assyria, and until this day!
For you are just concerning all the things coming upon us, for truth you acted, but we were led into sin.
And our kings, and our rulers, and our priests, and our fathers observed not your law, and heeded not your commandments, and your testimonies which you testified to them.
And they in your kingdom, and in goodness your abundant which you gave to them, and in the land spacious and lustrous which you put before them, did not serve you, and they did not turn from practices their wicked.
Behold, we are today servants, and the land which you gave to our fathers, to eat the fruit of it, and the good things of it, and behold, we are servants upon it.
And the fruits its the many became to the kings which you put over us because of our sins; and over our bodies they exercise authority, and over our cattle as is pleasing to them, and in affliction great we are.
And in all these things we are ordained a trust, and we write it; and put a seal upon it our rulers — our Levites, our priests.