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Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you: be of good courage, and do it.
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Repentance Demands Action
The people's encouragement to Ezra highlights a crucial aspect of repentance. Matthew Henry notes that while weeping for sin is good, "reforming is better." The call to "Arise... and do it" shows that godly sorrow must translate into concrete action to undo the wrong that has been committed.
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19th Century
Anglican
The covenant of repentance and amendment. Here the narrative assumes another form; and, in accordance with the solemnity of a great public transact…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Arise From the ground, where he lay prostrate:
for this matter belongs to you ;
Presbyterian
Shechaniah acknowledged the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease is threatening, but not incurable. Now that the p…
