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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Nehemiah 4 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/nehemiah/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/nehemiah/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">HPBT</a> > Nehemiah 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../nehemiah/3.htm" title="Nehemiah 3">◄</a> Nehemiah 4 <a href="../nehemiah/5.htm" title="Nehemiah 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>And when Samblat heard that we were building a wall, it grieved him, and his anger grew and he mocked at the Jews. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>And he said to his brothers and to the army of the Samaritans: “What are the Jews doing and boasting? They have abandoned the altars for themselves, and they eat by day as they set up these stones from a dung hill of dust and they are burned!” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>And Tubia an Ammonite was standing with him and said: “However they build, I know that a fox may climb and overturn the stones of their wall!”<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>“Hear our God, for we are a laughing stock, and return their shame to their heads, and give them as prey in the land of their captivity. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>Do not forgive their debts, and let not their sins be blotted out before you, because they rage against the building that we build!<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>And we shall build the wall!” And they built it and the wall was finished unto its midpoint; then the mouth of all the people was opened to work.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Then, when Samblat and Tubia and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdudites heard that time was given for the wall of Jerusalem to be built, and the breach in it began to be closed, it grieved them greatly. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And they all plotted as one to come to fight in Jerusalem and to make a stumbling block for them.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>And we prayed before God to set Guards over us by day and by night before them.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>And the Jews were saying: “The power of the Porters has decreased and the dust has intensified greatly, and we are unable to build the wall!<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And those who hate us were saying: ‘They will not know and they will not see until we fall upon them and we will kill them and we will stop their work!’” <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>And the Jews who dwelt with them came and they were saying to us: ‘Behold, therefore, ten times they came to fight with you from all of those places where they have been shooting at them. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>And they came and they stood from behind the wall to fight with you with their arrows, and they divided the army to the families with their swords and spears and bows. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>And I was afraid and I stood up and I said to the Princes and to the Governors and to the rest of the people: ‘You shall not be afraid before them! Remember LORD JEHOVAH, great and awesome, and fight for the sake of your brothers and for the sake of your sons and your daughters!’<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Then when our enemies heard that the matter was known to us, and LORD JEHOVAH abolished their counsels, and we all returned and we went up to the wall and we were working, all of us, each man at his work <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>And half of the young men from that day, and more than half of the people they made workers and half of them were holding spears and shields and bows and breastplates, and the workers stood behind the Jews and were building the wall. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>And those who carried on poles carried in his one hand and did the work, and in one he carried a weapon. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>And the Stone Masons held, each man, a sword, and he stood and built, and he who sounded on the horn stood behind him. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>And I said to the Princes and to the Governors and to the rest of the people: “The work is great and spread out and we are separated and we stand on the wall and we are distant, each man from his brother <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>And in the place where you hear the sound of the horn, there you shall come to us, and our God will fight for our sake.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>And we shall be doing our work, and half of us shall be holding spears, from the rising of the dawn until the stars will come out!” <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Also at that time I said to the people: “A man and his boy shall be spending the night within the streets of Jerusalem, and they shall be guarding it by night and by day, and they shall be doing the work.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/4-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>And I and my brothers and my boy Servants and the men Guards who followed me did not take off our clothes for a month of days, each man who arrived for it. <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nehemiah/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../nehemiah/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>