Nehemiah 4:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[And Nehemiah prayed] Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn their taunts upon their own heads, and give them for a prey in a land of their captivity.

American Standard Version (1901)

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

Common English Bible

Listen, God; we are despised! Turn their insults to us back on their heads and make them like plunder in a captive land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Listen, O our God, for we have become an object of contempt. Turn their reproach upon their own head, and grant that they may be despised in a land of captivity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Hear thou our God, for we are despised. Turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.

Nehemiah 4:4 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:9

4 And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors.

Psalm 79:12

Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

Proverbs 3:34

Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.

Lamentations 1:22

Heth. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he hath stretched out his line, and hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: and the bulwark hath mourned, and the wall hath been destroyed together.

Hosea 12:14

I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.

1 Samuel 17:26

1 And the words which David spoke were heard, and were rehearsed before Saul.