Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, etc.—All the pious people who reverenced God's word and dreaded its threatenings and judgments joined with Ezra in bewailing the public sin, and devising the means of redressing it.
I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice—The intelligence of so gross a violation of God's law by those who had been carried into captivity on account of their sins, and who, though restored, were yet unreformed, produced such a stunning effect on the mind of Ezra that he remained for a while incapable either of speech or of action. The hour of the evening sacrifice was the usual time of the people assembling; and at that season, having again rent his hair and garments, he made public prayer and confession of sin.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezra 9:4:
Ezra 9:1-2
Isaiah 47:5
Isaiah 66:2
Malachi 2:10-16
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