Ezra 10:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴ It is your responsibility to act. We are behind you, so go ahead and get it done.”

⁵ So Ezra began by making the leaders of the priests, of the Levites, and of the rest of the people take an oath that they would do what Shecaniah had proposed. ⁶ Then he went from in front of the Temple into the living quarters of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, and spent the night^[a] there grieving over the unfaithfulness of the exiles. He did not eat or drink anything.