15:008:036 And they delivered the king’s commissions unto the king’s
           lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river:  and
           they furthered the people, and the house of God.

15:009:001 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me,
           saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the
           Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the
           lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the
           Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
           Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

15:009:002 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for
           their sons:  so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with
           the people of those lands:  yea, the hand of the princes and
           rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

15:009:003 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.

15:009:004 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the
           words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of
           those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the
           evening sacrifice.

15:009:005 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and
           having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees,
           and spread out my hands unto the lord my God,

15:009:006 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.

15:009:007 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass
           unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and
           our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the
           lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to
           confusion of face, as it is this day.

15:009:008 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed 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.

15:009:009 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our
           bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the
           kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of
           our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us
           a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

15:009:010 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have
           forsaken thy commandments,