Ezr 10:2, Hos 2:15 | ESV | STEP | And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel , of the sons of Elam , addressed Ezra : We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land , but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this .

c[ch. 9:10; 11:1; Jer. 2:2; Ezek. 16:22, 60]

Ezra 10:2

2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: ^a“We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Hosea 2:15

15 And there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor ^{▼▼ Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26} a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^cas in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.