do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew
the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

9:30. And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify
against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard
not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the
lands.

9:31. Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them,
nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.

9:32. Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest
covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which
hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and
our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the
king of Assur, until this day.

9:33. And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because
thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.

9:34. Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept
thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which
thou hast testified among them.

9:35. And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy
manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat
land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their
most wicked devices.

9:36. Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou
gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things
thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.

9:37. And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set
over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over
our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.

9:38. And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write
it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.

2 Esdras Chapter 10

The names of the subscribers to the covenant, and the contents of it.

10:1. And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha the son of Hachelai,
and Sedecias,

10:2. Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,

10:3. Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,

10:4. Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,

10:5. Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,

10:6. Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,

10:7. Mosollam, Abia, Miamin,

10:8. Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.

10:9. And the Levites, Josue the son of Azanias, Bennui of the sons of
Henadad, Cedmihel,

10:10. And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia, Celita, Phalaia, Hanan,

10:11. Micha