H0776G–אֶ֫רֶץ–e.rets

So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.

הָאָ֖רֶץ (אָ֖רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

Cyrus, king of Persia, has said, All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord, the God of heaven; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people

הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (אָ֙רֶץ֙) 'A.retz “earth”

These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “earth”

They put the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the people of the countries: and they made burned offerings on it to the Lord, even burned offerings morning and evening.

הָאֲרָצ֑וֹת (אֲרָצ֑וֹת) 'a.ra.Tzot “lands”

Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

הָאָ֖רֶץ (אָ֖רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittite

הָאֲרָצ֑וֹת (אֲרָצ֑וֹת) 'a.ra.Tzot “lands”

For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.

הָאֲרָצ֑וֹת (אֲרָצ֑וֹת) 'a.ra.Tzot “lands”

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, a

הָאֲרָצ֗וֹת (אֲרָצ֗וֹת) 'a.ra.Tzot “lands”

Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from

הָאָ֗רֶץ (אָ֗רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”אֶ֤רֶץ 'E.retz “[is] a land of”הָאֲרָצ֑וֹת (אֲרָצ֑וֹת) 'a.ra.Tzot “lands”

So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for

הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.

הָאָ֑רֶץ (אָ֑רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

So now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and make yourselves separate from the peoples of the land and from the strange women.

הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (אֶ֥רֶץ) 'E.retz “a land of”

Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (אֶ֣רֶץ) 'E.retz “[the] land of”

You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

הָאָ֜רֶץ (אָ֜רֶץ) 'A.retz “earth”

You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for ri

אֶרֶץ֩ 'e.Retz “[the] land of”

And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.

אַרְצ֔וֹ (אַרְצ֔) 'ar.Tz “land”

And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

אֶ֣רֶץ 'E.retz “[the] land of”אֶ֙רֶץ֙ 'e.retz “[the] land of”אֶ֖רֶץ 'E.retz “[the] land of”

And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure

הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (אָ֙רֶץ֙) 'A.retz “land”הָאָ֔רֶץ (אָ֔רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”

Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

הָאֲרָצֹֽת׃ (אֲרָצֹֽת) 'a.ra.Tzot “lands”

For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

וּבְאֶ֨רֶץ (אֶ֨רֶץ) 'E.retz “[the] land”

Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

וְהָאָ֜רֶץ (אָ֜רֶץ) 'A.retz “land”