Ezra 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.”

Jos 23:16; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; 2Ch 16:9; Ezr 7:6,9,28; Ps 21:8,9; Ps 33:18,19; Ps 34:15,22; Ps 34:16; Ps 90:11; Isa 3:10,11; La 3:25; Zep 1:2-6; Ro 8:28; 1Co 9:15; 2Co 7:14; Heb 10:38; 1Pe 3:12

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).