<div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1012435">Ezra</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1012665">Chapter 9</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1012674">Verse 9</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1012673">&laquo; Previous Verse</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1012675">Next Verse &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Second Group Returns from Exile in Babylon</em></p><p><em>Ezra Recommits Israel to Marriage Within the Covenant</em></p><p>For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.</p><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1012435">Ezra</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1012665">Chapter 9</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1012674">Verse 9</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1012673">&laquo; Previous Verse</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1012675">Next Verse &raquo;</a></span></div></div><div class="lds_official">[<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ezra/9/9">View Ezra Chapter 9 Verse 9 at the Official LDS Website</a>]</div>