⁶ And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God.

Then all the people ^(A)answered, “Amen, Amen!” while ^(B)lifting up their hands. And they ^(C)bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

Men and Women in the Church

⁸ I desire therefore that the men pray ^(A)everywhere, ^(B)lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;

³¹ So the people ^(A)believed; and when they heard that the Lord had ^(B)visited the children of Israel and that He ^(C)had looked on their affliction, then ^(D)they bowed their heads and worshiped.

¹⁸ And Jehoshaphat ^(A)bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before the Lord, worshiping the Lord.

^11 (A)All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and ^(B)worshiped God,

¹³ Then ^(A)I shook out ^[a]the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not perform this promise. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied.”

And all the assembly said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord. ^(B)Then the people did according to this promise.

²⁶ Then the man ^(A)bowed down his head and worshiped the Lord.

²⁰ Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the Lord your God.” So all the assembly blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and prostrated themselves before the Lord and the king.