Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days.
It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.
Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.
Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his pleasure.
Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”