Ezr 9:8-9 | MHM | STEP | v. 8 : Ezra admits that their sin has continued for a long time: Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass (Ezra 9:7 ). Instead of learning from the mistakes of their ancestors, they repeated them. This makes their guilt even worse.

‏ Ezra 9:8-9

v. 8: Ezra admits that their sin has continued for a long time: Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass (Ezra 9:7 ^a). Instead of learning from the mistakes of their ancestors, they repeated them. This makes their guilt even worse.

v. 9: Ezra remembers that God has already punished them for their sins by sending them into captivity and allowing them to suffer. Yet, even after all this, they have not truly changed. Like someone who is crushed but not changed, they have been corrected but not reformed (Proverbs 27:22 ^b).