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and lo, they are recompensing to us -- to come in to drive us out of Thy possession, that Thou hast caused us to possess.

עָלֵ֑ינוּ (נוּ) nu “us”לְגָ֣רְשֵׁ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”הֽוֹרַשְׁתָּֽנוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “us”

`O our God, dost Thou not execute judgment upon them? for there is no power in us before this great multitude that hath come against us, and we know not what we do, but on Thee `are' our eyes.'

בָּ֙נוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “us”עָלֵ֑ינוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

and say to them, `Ye do not bring in the captives hither, for, to guilt against Jehovah on us, ye are saying to add unto our sin and unto our guilt? for abundant `is' the guilt we have, and the fierceness of anger on Israel.'

עָלֵ֙ינוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “us”לָ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

`Now -- with my heart -- to make a covenant before Jehovah, God of Israel, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from us.

מִמֶּ֖נּוּ (נּוּ) nu “us”

`Be strong and courageous, be not afraid, nor be cast down from the face of the king of Asshur, and from the face of all the multitude that `is' with him, for with us `are' more than with him.

עִמָּ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

With him `is' an arm of flesh, and with us `is' Jehovah our God, to help us, and to fight our battles;' and the people are supported by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

וְעִמָּ֜נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”לְעָזְרֵ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

`Is not Hezekiah persuading you, to give you up to die by famine, and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God doth deliver us from the hand of the king of Asshur?

יַצִּילֵ֕נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

`Go, seek Jehovah for me, and for him who is left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found, for great `is' the fury of Jehovah that is poured on us, because that our fathers kept not the word of Jehovah, to do according to all that is written on this book.'

בָ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

and they draw nigh unto Zerubbabel, and unto heads of the fathers, and say to them, `Let us build with you; for, like you, we seek to your God, and we are not sacrificing since the days of Esar-Haddon king of Asshur, who brought us up hither.'

אֹתָ֖נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

And Zerubbabel saith to them, also Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of the fathers of Israel, `Not for you, and for us, to build a house to our God; but we ourselves together do build to Jehovah God of Israel, as the king Cyrus, king of Persia, commanded us.'

וָלָ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”צִוָּ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

Be it known to the king, that the Jews who have come up from thee unto us, have come in to Jerusalem, the rebellious and base city they are building, and the walls they have finished, and the foundations they join.

עֲלֶ֥ינָא (נָא) na' “us”

Now, because that the salt of the palace `is' our salt, and the nakedness of the king we have no patience to see, therefore we have sent and made known to the king;

לַ֖נָא (נָא) na' “us”

The letter that ye sent unto us, explained, hath been read before me,

עֲלֶ֑ינָא (נָא) na' “us”

`And thus they have returned us word, saying, We `are' servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built many years before this, that a great king of Israel built and finished:

הֲתִיב֣וּנָא (נָא) na' “us”

`And now, if to the king it be good, let search be made in the treasure-house of the king, that `is' there in Babylon, whether it be that of Cyrus the king there was made a decree to build this house of God in Jerusalem, and the will of the king concerning this thing he doth send unto us.'

עֲלֶֽינָא׃ (נָא) na' “us”

and I charge them for Iddo the head, in the place Casiphia, and put in their mouth words to speak unto Iddo, `and' his brethren the Nethinim, in the place Casiphia, to bring to us ministrants for the house of our God.

לָ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

And they bring to us, according to the good hand of our God upon us, a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel, and Sherebiah, and his sons, and his brethren, eighteen;

לָ֜נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”עָלֵ֙ינוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “us”

And I proclaim there a fast, by the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our infants, and for all our substance,

לָ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, `The hand of our God `is' upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath `is' upon all forsaking Him.'

לְעָזְרֵ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.

לָֽנוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “us”

And we journey from the river Ahava, on the twelfth of the first month, to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God hath been upon us, and He delivereth us from the hand of the enemy and the lier in wait by the way;

עָלֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “us”וַיַּ֨צִּילֵ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

`And now, as a small moment hath grace been from Jehovah our God, to leave to us an escape, and to give to us a nail in His holy place, by our God's enlightening our eyes, and by giving us a little quickening in our servitude;

לָ֙נוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “us”לָ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”וּלְתִתֵּ֛נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

for servants we `are', and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

עֲזָבָ֖נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”עָלֵ֣ינוּ (נוּ) nu “us”לָ֣נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”לָ֣נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

`And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this),

עָלֵ֔ינוּ (נוּ) nu “us”לָּ֛נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

do we turn back to break Thy commands, and to join ourselves in marriage with the people of these abominations? art not Thou angry against us -- even to consumption -- till there is no remnant and escaped part?

בָּ֙נוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “us”