Ezra 10:4-6

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴ Arise, for it is your duty, and we are with you. Be strong and brave and do it.

⁵ Then Ezra arose and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.

⁶ Then Ezra came from before the house of God and went into the lodging place of Jehohanan son of Eliashib [for the night]. There he ate no bread and drank no water, for he mourned over the returned exiles’ faithlessness [and violation of God’s law].