The covenant of repentance and amendment. Here the narrative assumes another form; and, in accordance with the solemnity of a great public transact…

Then arose Ezra
From the ground where he lay:

and made the chief priests, and the Levites, and al…

Shechaniah acknowledged the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease is threatening, but not incurable. Now that the p…