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And I said to them, Ye are holy to the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a free-will-offering to the LORD God of your fathers.

וָאֹמְרָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

וַֽנִּסְעָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

וָאֶמְרְטָ֞ה (ה) h “!”וָאֵשְׁבָ֖ה (ה) h “!”

And at the evening sacrifice I arose from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

וָֽאֶכְרְעָה֙ (ה֙) h “!”וָאֶפְרְשָׂ֥ה (ה) h “!”

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens.

וָאֹמְרָ֗ה (ה) h “!”

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

וָאֶתְאַבְּלָ֖ה (ה) h “!”

O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cup-bearer.

וְהַצְלִֽיחָה־ (ה) h- “!”

And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not before been sad in his presence.

וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

And the king said to me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

וָֽאֶתְּנָ֥ה (ה) h “!”

Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon-well, and to the dung-port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and their gates were consumed with fire.

וָאֵצְאָ֨ה (ה) h “!”

Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact interest, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

וָאָרִ֙יבָה֙ (ה֙) h “!”וָאֹמְרָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

And I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, who were sold to the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold to us? Then they held their peace, and found nothing to answer.

וָאֹמְרָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

וָֽאֹמְרָ֡ה (ה) h “!”

Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

זָכְרָה־ (ה) h- “!”

That Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

לְכָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֨ה (ה) h “!”

And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

לְכָ֔ה (ה) h “!”

Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thy own heart.

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֤ה (ה) h “!”

And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

וָאֹמְרָ֗ה (ה) h “!”

And lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

וָאַכִּ֕ירָה (ה) h “!”

My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

זָכְרָ֧ה (ה) h “!”

And my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them who came up at the first, and found written in it,

וָאֶקְבְּצָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, of which one went on the right hand upon the wall towards the dung-gate:

וָאַעֲמִ֡ידָה (ה) h “!”

And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

וָאָבִ֣ינָה (ה) h “!”