Ezra 9:5

⁵Akşam sunusunda, yırtılmış giysim ve kaftanımla, kendimi alçaltmaktan kalktım. Dizlerimin üzerine çöktüm ve ellerimi Tanrım Yahve'ye açtım.

Ezra 9 records a crisis of covenant faithfulness. Ezra learns that the returned exiles, including priests and Levites, have intermarried with the surrounding peoples who practice idolatry. This is not a matter of ethnic purity but of spiritual fidelity: such marriages had led Isr