Nehemiah 4:9

In 11 translations

BSB

So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

KJV

Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

WEB

But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

ASV

But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

LSV

And we pray to our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

YLT

And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

DBY

Then we prayed to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.Elohim

DRC

And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.

GNV

The we prayed vnto our God, and set watchmen by them, day and night, because of them.

JPS4:3

But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

LXXE

So we prayed to our God and set watchmen against them day and night, because of them.

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WLC4:3

וַנִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל אֶל־אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וַנַּעֲמִ֨יד מִשְׁמָ֧ר עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם יוֹמָ֥ם וָלַ֖יְלָה מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם׃KJV:Neh.4.9

LXX-Br14:3

Καὶ προσηυξάμεθα πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐστήσαμεν προφύλακας ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν.

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• 1 Peter 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
• Acts 4:24–30When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit…
• Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• Matthew 26:41“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
• Luke 6:11–12But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus. In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
• Genesis 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
• 2 Kings 19:14–19So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the…
• Nehemiah 4:11And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”
• Psalms 55:16–22But I call to God, and the LORD saves me. Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice. He redeems my soul in peace from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me. God will hear…
• Genesis 32:9–12Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’ I am unworthy of all the kindness and…

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