4 Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it."

Other Translations of Ezra 10:4

King James Version

4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

English Standard Version

4 Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it."

The Message

4 "Now get up, Ezra. Take charge - we're behind you. Don't back down."

New King James Version

4 Arise, for this matter is your responsibility. We also are with you. Be of good courage, and do it."

New Living Translation

4 Get up, for it is your duty to tell us how to proceed in setting things straight. We are behind you, so be strong and take action."

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezra 10:4

Commentary on Ezra 10:1-5

(Read Ezra 10:1-5)

Shechaniah owned the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease threatening, but not incurable. Now that the people begin to lament, a spirit of repentance seems to be poured out; now there is hope that God will forgive, and have mercy. The sin that rightly troubles us, shall not ruin us. In melancholy times we must observe what makes for us, as well as against us. And there may be good hopes through grace, even where there is the sense of great guilt before God. The case is plain; what has been done amiss, must be undone again as far as possible; nothing less than this is true repentance. Sin must be put away, with a resolution never to have any thing more to do with it. What has been unjustly got, must be restored. Arise, be of good courage. Weeping, in this case, is good, but reforming is better. As to being unequally yoked with unbelievers, such marriages, it is certain, are sinful, and ought not to be made; but now they are not null, as they were before the gospel did away the separation between Jews and Gentiles.