Nehemiah 4:4

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.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

3Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said : Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.

5Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:26And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: What shall be given to the man that shall kill this Philistine, and shall take away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

Psalms 123:3Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

Hosea 12:14Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto him.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:2-7

The Opposition of Sanballat, &c.. ( b. c. 445.) 1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they… Read the whole commentary →

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