Ezra 8:22-23
8:22 I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy 1 along the way, because we had said to the king, “The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger 2 is against everyone who forsakes him.”
8:23 So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and he answered us.
1 tn A number of modern translations regard this as a collective singular and translate “from enemies” (also in v. 31).
2 tn Heb “his strength and his anger.” The expression is a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms).