so that they may offer acceptable sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the lives of the king and his sons.

Prayer of Confession

But at the evening offering I stood up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I bowed down on my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God;

Reconciliation with God

Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept greatly.