Ezra 9:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

Psalm 13:3

They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they acted deceitfully; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Hosea 6:2

For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

Habakkuk 3:2

O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity. And his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Psalm 85:6

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

Revelation 3:12

He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out no more; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

Romans 9:27

And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

Zechariah 10:4

Out of him shall come forth the corner, out of him the pin, out of him the bow of battle, out of him every exacter together.

Zechariah 8:12

But there shall be the seed of peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall give her 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 saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts?

Ezekiel 14:22

Yet there shall be left in it some that shall be saved, who shall bring away their sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come among you, and you shall see their way and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in all things that I have brought upon it.

Jeremiah 44:14

And there shall be none that shall escape and remain of the remnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt, and that shall return into the land of Juda, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there. There shall none return but they that shall flee.

Jeremiah 42:2

And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee, and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant: for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.

Isaiah 56:5

I will give to them, in my house and within my walls, a place and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name which shall never perish.

Isaiah 1:9

Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.

Psalm 138:7

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?

Psalm 34:5

Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

Job 33:30

That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.

Nehemiah 9:31

Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.

Nehemiah 1:11

I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name. And direct thy servant this day: and give him mercy before this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Ezra 9:9

For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken us, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to give us life, and to set up the house of our God, and rebuild the desolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.

2 Kings 19:4

It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and to reprove with words, which the Lord thy God hath heard: and do thou offer prayer for the remnants that are found.

1 Samuel 14:29

And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land. You have seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey:

1 Samuel 14:27

But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people: and he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt it in a honeycomb. And he carried his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

Proverbs 29:13

The poor man and the creditor have met one another: the Lord is the enlightener of them both.

Isaiah 14:3

And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall give thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard bondage wherewith thou didst serve before,

Psalm 13:4

Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Isaiah 6:13

And there shall be still a tithing therein: and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine-tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches. That which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

Zephaniah 3:12

And I will leave in the midst of thee a poor and needy people: and they shall hope in the name of the Lord.