Ezra 10:12 (YLT)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

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.

Ezra 10:14 `Let, we pray thee, our heads of all the assembly stand, and all who <FI>are<Fi> in our cities, who have settled strange wives, do come in at the times appointed, and with them the elders of city and city, and its judges, till the turning back of the fury of the wrath of our God from us, for this thing.'

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "assembly", "answer", "great", "voice", "right", and "word--on". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "assembly" and "answer", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "and now make confession to Jehovah God..." into verse 13's "but the people FI are Fi many...", so "assembly" and "answer" 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 "assembly" and "answer" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.