I will attack him while he is weary and discouraged, throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will scatter. I will strike down only the king
Nehemiah 4:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And our enemies said, ‘They won’t realise it until we’re among them and can kill them and stop the work.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And our enemies said, They will not know or see till we come into their midst and kill them and stop the work. American Standard Version (1901) And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. Common English Bible Meanwhile, our enemies were saying: “Before they know or see anything, we can be in their midst and start to kill them. We’ll stop the work!” Catholic Public Domain Version And our enemies said: "Let them neither know, nor realize, until we arrive in their midst, and kill them, and cause the work to cease." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we come in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease. |
I will attack him while he is weary and discouraged, throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will scatter. I will strike down only the king
In Judah, it was said: The strength of the labourer fails, since there is so much rubble. We will never be able to rebuild the wall.
When the Jews who lived nearby arrived, they said to us time and again, ‘Everywhere you turn, they attack us.’
So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.
But disaster will happen to you; you will not know how to avert it. And it will fall on you, but you will be unable to ward it off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
When it was morning, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Don’t let them persuade you, because there are more than forty of them lying in ambush #– #men who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, waiting for your consent.’
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.