Nehemiah 4:4

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Nehemiah prayed and said, “Our God, listen to our prayer. These men hate us. Sanballat and Tobiah are insulting us. Make bad things happen to them. Make them ashamed, like people taken away as prisoners.

Cross References

Psalm 79:12

Punish the nations around us! Pay them back seven times for what they did to us. Punish them for insulting you.

Proverbs 3:34

He will humiliate those who make fun of others, but he is kind to those who are humble.

Hosea 12:14

But Ephraim made the Lord very angry. Ephraim killed many people, so he will be punished for his crimes. His Lord will make him bear his shame.”

1 Samuel 17:26

David asked the men standing near him, “What did he say? What is the reward for killing this Philistine and taking away this shame from Israel? Who is this Goliath anyway? He is only some foreigner, nothing but a Philistine. Why does he think he can speak against the army of the living God?”

Nehemiah 5:9

So I continued speaking. I said, “What you people are doing is not right! You know that you should fear and respect our God. You should not do the shameful things other people do!

Lamentations 1:22

“Look how evil my enemies are! Then you can treat them the same way you treated me because of all my sins. Do this because I am groaning again and again. Do this because my heart is sick.”