Ezra 10:4
Good News Translation
It is your responsibility to act. We are behind you, so go ahead and get it done."

New Revised Standard Version
Take action, for it is your duty, and we are with you; be strong, and do it.”

Contemporary English Version
Ezra, it's up to you to do something! We will support whatever you do. So be brave!

New American Bible
Rise, then, for this is your duty! We are with you, so have courage and act!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee: take courage, and do it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee: take courage, and do it.

Arise

Joshua 7:10 And the Lord said to Joshua: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?

1 Chronicles 22:16,19 In gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, whereof there is no number. Arise then, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Ezra 7:23-28 All that belongeth to the rites of the God of heaven, let it be given diligently in the house of the God of heaven: lest his wrath should be enkindled against the realm of the king, and of his sons. . . .

Mark 13:34 Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter to watch.

we also will

Joshua 1:16-18 And they made answer to Joshua, and said: All that thou hast commanded us, we will do: and whither soever thou shalt send us, we will go. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:10,21 Now therefore seeing the Lord hath chosen thee to build the house of the sanctuary, take courage, and do it. . . .

be of good

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees. . . .

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:

Hebrews 12:12,13 Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees: . . .

Context
Shecaniah's Encouragement
3Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord, and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be done according to the law. 4Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee: take courage, and do it.5So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word, and they swore.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:10
Now therefore seeing the Lord hath chosen thee to build the house of the sanctuary, take courage, and do it.

Ezra 10:5
So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word, and they swore.

Ezra 10:3
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