Nehemiah 4:9
And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 32:9And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who saidst to me: Return to thy land and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee,
2 Kings 19:14And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord,
Job 5:12Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.
Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness; and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:8-16
7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 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. 10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is… Read the whole commentary →