And you are proud! Shouldn’t you be very sad instead? Shouldn’t you have thrown out of your church the man doing this?

你们还是自高自大，并不哀痛，把行这事的人从你们中间赶出去。

你们还自高自大！你们不是该觉得痛心，把做这事的人从你们中间赶出去吗？

你们还自高自大！你们不是该觉得痛心，把做这事的人从你们中间赶出去吗？

你们竟然还自高自大！难道你们不该痛心，把做这事的人从你们当中赶出去吗？

你们还是自高自大！难道你们不该觉得痛心，把作这件事的人从你们中间赶出去吗？

你们却还自我膨胀！难道你们不更应该悲伤，让做这事的人从你们里面被除去吗？

你們還是自高自大，並不哀痛，把行這事的人從你們中間趕出去。

你們還自高自大！你們不是該覺得痛心，把做這事的人從你們中間趕出去嗎？

你們還自高自大！你們不是該覺得痛心，把做這事的人從你們中間趕出去嗎？

你們竟然還自高自大！難道你們不該痛心，把做這事的人從你們當中趕出去嗎？

你們還是自高自大！難道你們不該覺得痛心，把作這件事的人從你們中間趕出去嗎？

你們呢、還自吹自大！豈不是倒應當哀慟，讓行這樣事的人從你們中間清除掉！

你們卻還自我膨脹！難道你們不更應該悲傷，讓做這事的人從你們裡面被除去嗎？

爾猶自矜、而不哀傷、使行此者見擯於爾中、

猶妄自誇大、而不痛哭、使斁倫者、見擯於爾中、

爾猶妄自誇大、而不痛哭、使行此者、見除於爾中、

爾等尚驕矜自滿、而不痛自懲創、毅然擯絕如此亂倫忤逆之子耶。

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this?

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship.

And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief and remove from your congregation the one who did this?

You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation.

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

‘ But here is what I have against you. You put up with that woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophet. With her teaching, she has led my servants into sexual sin. She has tricked them into eating food offered to statues of gods.I’ve given her time to turn away from her sinful ways. But she doesn’t want to.She lay down to commit her sin so I will make her lie down in suffering. Those who commit adultery with her will suffer greatly too. Their only way out is to turn away from what she taught them to do.

The Lord said to him,“ Go all through Jerusalem. Look for those who are sad and sorry about all the things being done there. I hate those things. Put a mark on the foreheads of those people.”

The men of Israel have married the daughters of some of those people. They’ve also taken some of those women for their sons to marry. So they’ve mixed our holy nation with the nations around us. We leaders and officials have also married women who don’t worship the Lord. By doing this, we have led the way in breaking our covenant with the Lord.”When I heard that, I tore my inner robe and my coat. I pulled hair from my head and beard. I was so shocked I sat down.Then everyone who trembled with fear at God’s words gathered around me. That’s because the people who had returned from Babylon had not been faithful. So I was very upset. I just sat there until the time of the evening sacrifice.Then I got up. I had been very sad for quite a while. My inner robe and my coat were torn. I fell down on my knees. I spread my hands out to the Lord my God.I prayed,“ I’m filled with shame and dishonor, my God. I can hardly look to you and pray. That’s because our sins are piled up above our heads. Our guilt reaches all the way to the heavens.

Ezra was praying and admitting to God that his people had sinned. He was weeping and throwing himself down in front of the house of God. Then a large crowd of Israelites gathered around him. Men, women and children were there. They too wept bitterly.Shekaniah spoke to Ezra. Shekaniah was the son of Jehiel. He belonged to the family line of Elam. Shekaniah said,“ We haven’t been faithful to our God. We’ve married women from the nations around us. In spite of that, there is still hope for Israel.So let’s make a covenant in front of our God. Let’s promise to send away all these women and their children. That’s what you have advised us to do. Those who respect our God’s commands have given us the same advice. We want to do what the Law says.Get up, Ezra. This matter is in your hands. Do what you need to. We will be behind you all the way. Be brave and do it.”So Ezra got up. He made the leading priests and Levites and all the Israelites make a promise. He made them promise they would do what Shekaniah had suggested. And they made that promise.Then Ezra left the house of God. He went to Jehohanan’s room. Jehohanan was the son of Eliashib. While Ezra was there, he didn’t eat any food. He didn’t drink any water. That’s because he was filled with sadness. He mourned because the people weren’t faithful to the Lord’ s commands. Those people were the ones who had returned from the land of Babylon.

We were comforted not only when he came but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us how much you longed for me. He told us about your deep sadness and concern for me. That made my joy greater than ever.Even if my letter made you sad, I’m not sorry I sent it. At first I was sorry. I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while.Now I am happy. I’m not happy because you were made sad. I’m happy because your sadness led you to turn away from your sins. You became sad just as God wanted you to. So you were not hurt in any way by us.Godly sadness causes us to turn away from our sins and be saved. And we are certainly not sorry about that! But worldly sadness brings death.Look at what that godly sadness has produced in you. You are working hard to clear yourselves. You are angry and alarmed. You are longing to see me. You are concerned. You are ready to make sure that the right thing is done. In every way you have proved that you are not guilty in that matter.

If you don’t listen, I will weep in secret. Because you are so proud, I will weep bitterly. Tears will flow from my eyes. The Lord’ s flock will be taken away as prisoners.

Brothers and sisters, I have used myself and Apollos as examples to help you. You can learn from us the meaning of the saying,“ Don’t go beyond what is written.” Then you won’t be proud that you follow one of us instead of the other.Who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you brag as though you did not?You already have everything you want, don’t you? Have you already become rich? Have you already begun to rule? And did you do that without us? I wish that you really had begun to rule. Then we could also rule with you!

Kill the old men and women, the young men and women, and the children. But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Start at my temple.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.

“ Your heart was tender. You made yourself humble in the eyes of the Lord. You heard what I spoke against this place and its people. I said they would be under a curse. I told them they would be destroyed. You tore your royal robes and wept in front of me. And I have heard you,” announces the Lord.

God will judge those outside. Scripture says,“ Get rid of that evil person!”( Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21, 24; 24:7)

Streams of tears flow from my eyes, because people don’t obey your law. Tsadhe

Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman. He did it right in front of the eyes of Moses and the whole community of Israel. They were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

I’m afraid that when I come again my God will put me to shame in front of you. Then I will be sad about many who sinned earlier and have not turned away from it. They have not turned away from uncleanness, sexual sins and wild living. They have done all those things.

Some of you have become proud. You act as if I weren’t coming to you.

When you come together like this, hand this man over to Satan. Then the power of sin in his life will be destroyed. His spirit will be saved on the day the Lord returns.Your bragging is not good. It is like yeast. Don’t you know that just a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise?Get rid of the old yeast. Then you can be like a new batch of dough without yeast. That is what you really are. That’s because Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been offered up for us.