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Nehemiah 4:10

ExhaustionDiscouragement and depressionWork

8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

11 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.

12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

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BSB
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
KJV
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
WEB
Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading and there is much rubble, so that we are not able to build the wall.”
ASV
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
DARBY
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens faileth, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build at the wall.
BLB
And Judah said, “The power of the laborers is failing, and the rubble [is] abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.”
ÅB
Da sa jødene: Bærernes kraft svikter, og grushaugene er for store; vi makter ikke lenger å bygge på muren.
OTB
I mellomtiden sa folket i Juda: "Arbeidernes styrke svikter, og det er så mye rusk at vi ikke kan bygge opp muren."
B1930
Da sa jødene: Bærernes kraft svikter, og grushaugene er for store; vi makter ikke lenger å bygge på muren.

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Cross references

  • Haggai 1:2

    Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.

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  • Numbers 32:9

    For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

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  • 2 Chronicles 2:18

    And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

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  • Numbers 13:31

    But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

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  • Psalms 11:1–2

    In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

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  • Ezekiel 29:18

    Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:

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