Ezra 10:11 (YLT)

Passage

and, now, make confession to Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do His good pleasure, and be separated from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.'

Nearby Context

Ezra 10:9 And gathered are all the men of Judah and Benjamin to Jerusalem by the third day, it <FI>is<Fi> the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sit in the broad place of the house of God, trembling on account of the matter and of the showers.

Ezra 10:10 And Ezra the priest riseth, and saith unto them, `Ye--ye have trespassed, and ye settle strange women, to add to the guilt of Israel;

Ezra 10:11 and, now, make confession to Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do His good pleasure, and be separated from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.'

Ezra 10:12 And all the assembly answer and say <FI>with<Fi> a great voice, `Right; according to thy word--on us to do;

Ezra 10:13 but the people <FI>are<Fi> many, and <FI>it is<Fi> the time of showers, and there is no power to stand without, and the work <FI>is<Fi> not for one day, nor for two, for we have multiplied to transgress in this thing.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "make", "confession", "jehovah", "fathers", "good", "pleasure", "separated", and "peoples". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "make" and "confession", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "And Ezra the priest riseth and saith..." into verse 12's "And all the assembly answer and say...", so "make" and "confession" belong inside that flow. In Ezra context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "make" and "confession" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.