So I continued speaking. I said, “What you people are doing is not right! You know that you should fear and respect God. You should not do the shameful things other people do!
Nehemiah 4:4 - Easy To Read Version \{Nehemiah prayed to God. He said,\} “Our God, listen to our prayer. Those men hate us. Sanballat and Tobiah are insulting us. Make those bad things happen to them. Make them ashamed, like people taken away as prisoners. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
So I continued speaking. I said, “What you people are doing is not right! You know that you should fear and respect God. You should not do the shameful things other people do!
God, punish the people around us\par seven times for what they did to us.\par Punish those people for insulting you.\par
If a person is proud and makes fun of other people, the Lord will punish him and make fun of him. But the Lord is kind to humble people.
“Look at how evil my enemies are.\par Then you can treat them\par the same way you treated me\par because of all my sins.\par Do this because I am groaning\par again and again.\par Do this because my heart is sick.”\par
But Ephraim caused the Lord to be very angry. Ephraim killed many people. So he will be punished for his crimes. His master (the Lord) will make him bear his shame.”
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. [153] Goliath is nothing but a Philistine. Why does he think he can speak against the army of the living God?”