Be strong, and let us be courageous for the sake of our people and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”
Nehemiah 4:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 and all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem, to injure and cause confusion and failure in it. American Standard Version (1901) and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein. Common English Bible They plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it. Catholic Public Domain Version And they all gathered together, so that they might go forth and fight against Jerusalem, and so that they might prepare ambushes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes. |
Be strong, and let us be courageous for the sake of our people and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”
“Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there is one greater with us than with him.
I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the gaps were beginning to be closed, they were very angry
For I hear many whispering: “Terror is all around! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” All my close friends are watching for me to stumble. “Perhaps he can be enticed, and we can prevail against him and take our revenge on him.”
Know therefore and understand: from the time that the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with streets and moat, but in a troubled time.