1 Esdras 9:52
King James VersionSource notes
“For this day is holy unto the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honour.”
Context
49Then spake Attharates unto Esdras the chief priest. and reader, and to the Levites that taught the multitude, even to all, saying,
50This day is holy unto the Lord; (for they all wept when they heard the law:)
51Go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part to them that have nothing;
52For this day is holy unto the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honour.
53So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy to the Lord; be not sorrowful.
54Then went they their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give part to them that had nothing, and to make great cheer;
55Because they understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled.