Ezra 10:12

Good News Translation

The people shouted in answer, "We will do whatever you say."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then all the assembly responded loudly: “Yes, we will do as you say!

Hebrew Names Version
Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

King James Version
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

English Standard Version
Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "It is so; we must do as you have said.

New Century Version
Then the whole group answered Ezra with a loud voice, "Ezra, you're right! We must do what you say.

New English Translation
All the assembly replied in a loud voice: "We will do just as you have said!

Amplified Bible
Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, "It is our responsibility to do just as you have said.

New American Standard Bible
Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, "It is our duty to do exactly as you have said!

World English Bible
Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the Congregation answered, and sayd with a loude voyce, So will we do according to thy wordes vnto vs.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, "This is so! As you have said, so it is our duty to do.

Berean Standard Bible
And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: "Truly we will do as you say!

Contemporary English Version
Everyone in the crowd shouted: You're right! We will do what you say.

Complete Jewish Bible
In response, the whole assembly cried aloud, "Yes, our duty is to do as you have said.

Darby Translation
And the whole congregation answered and said with a loud voice, Yes, it is for us to do according to thy words.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the whole group who met together answered Ezra. They shouted, "Ezra, you are right! We must do what you say.

George Lamsa Translation
Then all the people answered and said to Ezra with a loud voice, Your words concerning us are good, and we shall accept everything which you say concerning us, and do it truthfully.

Lexham English Bible
Then all the assembly answered with a great voice and said, "It is so. We must do according to your words.

Literal Translation
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, Right! According to your word it is on us to do.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The answered all the cogregacion, & sayde with loude voyce: Let it be done as thou hast sayde.

American Standard Version
Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said concerning us, so must we do.

Bible in Basic English
Then all the people, answering, said with a loud voice, As you have said, so it is right for us to do.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the congregation aunswered, and sayde with a loude voyce: It shalbe so, and we will do as thou hast sayde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice: 'As thou hast said, so it is for us to do.

King James Version (1611)
Then all the congregation answered, and said with a loude voice, As thou hast said, so must we doe:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then all the congregation answered and said, This thy word is powerful upon us to do it.

English Revised Version
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, as thou hast said concerning us, so must we do.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al the multitude answeride, and seide with greet vois, Bi thi word to vs, so be it doon.

Update Bible Version
Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

New King James Version
Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, "Yes! As you have said, so we must do.

New Living Translation
Then the whole assembly raised their voices and answered, "Yes, you are right; we must do as you say!"

New Life Bible
Then all the people answered with a loud voice, "That is right! We must do as you have said.

New Revised Standard
Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "It is so; we must do as you have said.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded all the convocation and said, with a loud voice, - Thus, according to thy word concerning us, must it be done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice: According to thy word unto us, so be it done.

Revised Standard Version
Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "It is so; we must do as you have said.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the assembly answer and say [with] a great voice, `Right; according to thy word -- on us to do;

THE MESSAGE
The whole congregation responded with a shout, "Yes, we'll do it—just the way you said it!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, "That's right! As you have said, so it is our duty to do.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Then he went from in front of the Temple into the living quarters of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, and spent the night there grieving over the unfaithfulness of the exiles. He did not eat or drink anything. ⁷ A message was sent throughout Jerusalem and Judah that all those who had returned from exile were to meet in Jerusalem ⁸ by order of the leaders of the people. If any failed to come within three days, all their property would be confiscated, and they would lose their right to be members of the community. ⁹ Within the three days, on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the men living in the territory of Judah and Benjamin came to Jerusalem and assembled in the Temple square. It was raining hard, and because of the weather and the importance of the meeting everyone was trembling. ¹⁰ Ezra the priest stood up and spoke to them. He said, "You have been faithless and have brought guilt on Israel by marrying foreign women. ¹¹ Now then, confess your sins to the Lord , the God of your ancestors, and do what pleases him. Separate yourselves from the foreigners living in our land and get rid of your foreign wives." ¹² The people shouted in answer, "We will do whatever you say." ¹³ But they added, "The crowd is too big, and it's raining hard. We can't stand here in the open like this. This isn't something that can be done in one or two days, because so many of us are involved in this sin. ¹⁴ Let our officials stay in Jerusalem and take charge of the matter. Then let anyone who has a foreign wife come at a set time, together with the leaders and the judges of his city. In this way God's anger over this situation will be turned away."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As thou hast said: They all resolved to do what Ezra had commanded; and they did put away their wives, even those by whom they had children - Ezra 10:44, each of whom doubtless received a portion according to the circumstances of her husband, and was not turned away desolate. Humanity must have dictated this, and no law of God is contrary to humanity.

so must we do: Ezra 10:3, Ezra 10:4, Nehemiah 13:23, Psalms 78:37, Psalms 78:57

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:5 - confess Nehemiah 5:12 - We will restore

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice,.... That they might be heard, and to show that they were willing and ready to comply with what was proposed:

as thou host said, so must we do; being convinced of their sin, they saw it was a duty incumbent on them to put away their strange wives, and that there was a necessity of it, to avert the wrath of God from them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. As thou hast said, so must we do. — They all resolved to do what Ezra then commanded, they did put away their wives, even those by whom they had children; Ezra 10:44: this was a great hardship on the women and children. Though by the Jewish laws such marriages were null and void, yet as the women they had taken did not know these laws, their case was deplorable. However, we may take it for granted that each of them received a portion according to the circumstances of their husbands, and that they and their children were not turned away desolate, but had such a provision as their necessities required. Humanity must have dictated this, and no law of God is contrary to humanity. After all, there is some room to doubt whether they did put them finally away, for several years after Nehemiah found Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab; Nehemiah 13:23. And if these were not the same women, we find that the same offense was continued.