But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come of you, and of your own have we given you.
Nehemiah 4:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So we built the wall, and all [of it] was joined together to half its height, for the people had a heart and mind to work. American Standard Version (1901) So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work. Common English Bible We continued to build the wall. All of it was joined together, and it reached half of its intended height because the people were eager to work. Catholic Public Domain Version And so we built the wall, and we joined it together, even to the unfinished portion. And the heart of the people was stirred up for the work. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work. |
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come of you, and of your own have we given you.
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Chizkiyahu rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] to anger before the builders.
But it happened that when Sanvallat, Toviyah, the Arabians, the `Ammonim, and the Ashdodi heard that the repairing of the walls of Yerushalayim went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
The LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbavel, the son of She'alti'el, governor of Yehudah, and the spirit of Yehoshua, the son of Yehotzadak, the Kohen Gadol, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of Armies, their God,
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Yeshua the Messiah, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amein.