All my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. Jeremiah 23:9

Trivia: In Jeremiah 9, what does God say he'll make Jerusalem into?

Why did Ezra pull out the hairs on his head and beard?


Because Israelite men married foreign women

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 astonished. Ezra 9:2
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. 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 astonished. Ezra 9:2

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