God of Favor and Might,
In the wastelands of our city, You invite us to come build with You. You are the One who removes our reproach. Because we have your Word, we say to the willing, "Let us rise up and build."
You will prosper us. When others ridicule and mock, we remember You are our inheritance. We set our hands to do this good work with You.
Nehemiah 2New King James Version (NKJV)
17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.
So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they set their hands to this good work.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they laughed at us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
20 So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”
Footnotes:
Nehemiah 2:7 That is, the Euphrates, and so elsewhere in this book
Nehemiah 2:8 Literally house
Nehemiah 2:10 Literally servant, and so elsewhere in this book
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
In the wastelands of our city, You invite us to come build with You. You are the One who removes our reproach. Because we have your Word, we say to the willing, "Let us rise up and build."
You will prosper us. When others ridicule and mock, we remember You are our inheritance. We set our hands to do this good work with You.
Nehemiah 2New King James Version (NKJV)
17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.
So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they set their hands to this good work.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they laughed at us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
20 So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”
Footnotes:
Nehemiah 2:7 That is, the Euphrates, and so elsewhere in this book
Nehemiah 2:8 Literally house
Nehemiah 2:10 Literally servant, and so elsewhere in this book
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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