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See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

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

O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

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

And said to them, You are not to let these prisoners come here; for what you are designing to do will be a cause of sin against the Lord to us, making even greater our sin and our wrongdoing, which now are great enough, and his wrath is burning against I

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

Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

מִמֶּ֖נּוּ (נּוּ) nu “us”

Be strong and take heart; have no fear, and do not be troubled on account of the king of Assyria and all the great army with him: for there is a greater with us.

עִמָּ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.

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

Is it not Hezekiah who has got you to do it, causing your death from need of food and water, by saying, The Lord our God will give us salvation out of the hands of the king of Assyria?

יַצִּילֵ֕נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the

בָ֔נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyr

אֹתָ֖נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has

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

We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases.

עֲלֶ֥ינָא (נָא) na' “us”

Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,

לַ֖נָא (נָא) na' “us”

And now the sense of the letter which you sent to us has been made clear to me,

עֲלֶ֑ינָא (נָא) na' “us”

And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.

הֲתִיב֣וּנָא (נָא) na' “us”

So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasur

עֲלֶֽינָא׃ (נָא) na' “us”

And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.

לָ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

And by the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;

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

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

לָ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power a

לְעָזְרֵ֥נוּ (נוּ) nu “us”

So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.

לָֽנוּ׃ (נוּ) nu “us”

Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was on us, and he gave us salvation from our haters and those who were waiting to make an attack on us by the way.

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

And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

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

For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give u

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

And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

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

Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

בָּ֙נוּ֙ (נוּ֙) nu “us”