Ezr 9:10 “And now, O our God, what can we say after this? That we have forsaken Thy commandments,” זאת, i.e., such proofs of the divine compassion as have just been mentioned. The answer which follows commences with כּי, before which נאמר is mentally repeated: “we can only say that we have forsaken Thy commandments, requited Thy kindness with sins.”