Nehemiah 4:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ [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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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.

Nehemiah 4:4 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 5:9

Then I said, ‘What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God  and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Proverbs 3:34

He mocks those who mock but gives grace to the humble.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their wickedness come before you, and deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and I am sick at heart.

Hosea 12:14

Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his contempt.

1 Samuel 17:26

David spoke to the men who were standing with him: ‘What will be done for the man who kills that Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel?  Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine  that he should defy the armies  of the living God? ’