Ezra 10:9

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin.

A great and troubled assembly

The text teaches--

I. That it is the tendency of sin to produce sorrow and consternation of soul. There is a scorpion sin in remembered guilt when outward troubles and inward fears meet together (Genesis 42:21).

II. That God mares with peculiar interest the time if’ which repentance unto life begins in the sow. Iii. That repentance when it is real will bring forth its appropriate fruits.

IV. That the names and persons of genuine penitents are for ever precious to God and recorded in his book. (Samuel Thodey.)