Get up, for this matter is your responsibility,(A) and we support you. Be strong and take action!”(B)

Then Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said; so they took the oath.(C) Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.[a] He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:6 1 Esdras 9:2, Syr; MT, Vg read he went

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