KJV King James Version
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.
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Nehemiah 4:10
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.”
WEB World English Bible
Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.”
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Judah saith, ‘The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish is abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.’
Surrounding context — Nehemiah 4
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] 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].
13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, [and] on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayיְהוּדָ֗הH3063 · ye.hu.dahJudahכָּשַׁל֙H3782 · ka.shalto stumbleכֹּ֣חַH3581 · ko.achreptileהַסַּבָּ֔לH5449 · sab.balburdenוְהֶעָפָ֖רH6083 · a.phardustהַרְבֵּ֑הH7235 · ra.vahto multiplyוַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙H587 · a.nach.nuweלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotנוּכַ֔לH3201 · ya.kholbe ableלִבְנ֖וֹתH1129 · ba.nahto buildבַּחוֹמָֽה׃H2346 · cho.mahwall
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 2:18And 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.Ezekiel 29:18Son 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:Numbers 13:31But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they [are] stronger than we.Psalm 11:1-2To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?Haggai 1:2Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.Numbers 32:9For 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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