⁸ And it was evil in my eyes: so I had all Tobiah's things put out of the room.

³ And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

⁴ Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.

¹ Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

⁹ I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

¹⁵ And they came to Jerusalem; and he went into the Temple, and sent out those who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were offering doves for money;

¹⁶ And he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple.

¹⁷ And he gave them teaching, and said to them, Is it not in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer for all the nations? but you have made it a hole of thieves.

¹³ The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴ And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats:

¹⁵ And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables;

¹⁶ And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.

¹⁷ And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.