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I said to them, You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.

וָאֹמְרָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [ergänzt: day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

וַֽנִּסְעָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

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

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

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

and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens.

וָאֹמְרָ֗ה (ה) h “!”

It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

וָאֶתְאַבְּלָ֖ה (ה) h “!”

Lord, I beg you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cup bearer to the king.

וְהַצְלִֽיחָה־ (ה) h- “!”

It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been [ergänzt: before] sad in his presence.

וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

The king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), For how long shall your journey be? and when will you 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 with me captains of the army and horsemen.

וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.

וָאֵצְאָ֨ה (ה) h “!”

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of his brother. I held a great assembly against them.

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

I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

וָאֹמְרָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

וָֽאֹמְרָ֡ה (ה) h “!”

Remember to me, my God, for good, 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 [ergänzt: one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

לְכָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I can't come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֨ה (ה) h “!”

You have also appointed prophets to preach of you 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 you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֤ה (ה) h “!”

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

וָאֹמְרָ֗ה (ה) h “!”

I discerned, and, behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

וָאַכִּ֕ירָה (ה) h “!”

Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

זָכְרָ֧ה (ה) h “!”

My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:

וָאֶקְבְּצָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. [ergänzt: One went] on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;

וָאַעֲמִ֡ידָה (ה) h “!”

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

וָאָבִ֣ינָה (ה) h “!”