Nehemiah 4:10
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And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
In other translations
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
Hebrew words
וַיֹּאמֶרvaiyomerand it saidH559יְהוּדָהyehudahJudahH3063כָּשַׁלkashalit has failedH3782כֹּחַkoach[the] strength ofH3581הַסַּבָּלhasabalthe burden-bearer[s]H5449וְהֶעָפָרvehe'afarand the debrisH6083הַרְבֵּהharbeh[is] muchH7235וַאֲנַחְנוּva'anachnuand weH587לֹאlo'notH3808נוּכַלnukhalwe will be ableH3201לִבְנוֹתlivnotto rebuildH1129בַּחוֹמָה׃bachomah<on> the wallH2346
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Related verses
- Psalm 11:1-21 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? 2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.1 In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain! 2 For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
- Haggai 1:2Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 29:18Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.
- Numbers 32:9For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
- 2 Chronicles 2:18And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- Numbers 13:31But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
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People and places
People: Judah