Ezra 9:8 - Revised Standard Version

⁸ But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And now, for a brief moment, grace has been shown us by the Lord our God, Who has left us a remnant to escape and has given us a secure hold in His holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And now for a little moment grace hath been showed from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

Common English Bible

⁸ “But now, for a brief while the LORD our God has shown favor in leaving us survivors and in giving us a stake in his holy place. Our God cheered us and revived us for a little while in our slavery.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And now, to a small extent and for a moment, our petition has been made with the Lord our God, so that they may leave us a remnant, and so that a secure place in his holy land may be given to us, and so that our God may illuminate our eyes, and may give us a little life in our servitude.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And now, as a little, and for a moment, has our prayer been made before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his holy place: and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us a little life in our bondage.

Ezra 9:8 Cross References

2 Kings 19:4

It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”

Ezra 9:9

For we are bondmen; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:11

O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who delight to fear thy name; and give success to thy servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.

Nehemiah 9:31

Nevertheless in thy great mercies thou didst not make an end of them or forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Job 33:30

to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may see the light of life.

Psalm 13:3

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Psalm 13:4

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him”; lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

Psalm 138:7

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life; thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me.

Psalm 34:5

Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.

Psalm 85:6

Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?

Proverbs 29:13

The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the Lord gives light to the eyes of both.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings which are given by one Shepherd.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 14:3

When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

Isaiah 56:5

I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 6:13

And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our supplication come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us),

Jeremiah 44:14

so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there; for they shall not return, except some fugitives.”

Ezekiel 14:22

Yet, if there should be left in it any survivors to lead out sons and daughters, when they come forth to you, and you see their ways and their doings, you will be consoled for the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.

Hosea 6:2

After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.

Habakkuk 3:2

O Lord, I have heard the report of thee, and thy work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years renew it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

Zephaniah 3:12

For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord,

Zechariah 10:4

Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent peg, out of them the battle bow, out of them every ruler.

Zechariah 8:12

For there shall be a sowing of peace; the vine shall yield its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

Zechariah 8:6

Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, says the Lord of hosts?

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved;

Revelation 3:12

He who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.

1 Samuel 14:27

But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; so he put forth the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes became bright.

1 Samuel 14:29

Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land; see how my eyes have become bright, because I tasted a little of this honey.