Nehemiah 4:9
New International Version
But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.

New Living Translation
But we prayed to our God and guarded the city day and night to protect ourselves.

English Standard Version
And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

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

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

New King James Version
Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.

New American Standard Bible
But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.

NASB 1995
But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.

NASB 1977
But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.

Legacy Standard Bible
But we prayed to our God, and because of them we stood a guard against them day and night.

Amplified Bible
But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.

Christian Standard Bible
So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And we prayed before God to set Guards over us by day and by night before them.

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

Contemporary English Version
But we kept on praying to our God, and we also stationed guards day and night.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But we prayed to our God and set guards to protect us day and night.

Good News Translation
but we prayed to our God and kept men on guard against them day and night.

International Standard Version
But we prayed to our God. We also set up guards day and night because of them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

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

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

New American Bible
We prayed to our God and posted a watch against them day and night for fear of what they might do.

NET Bible
So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard to protect against them both day and night.

New Revised Standard Version
So we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Discouragement Overcome
9So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night. 10Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”…

Cross References
Nehemiah 4:10
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: "The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall."

Nehemiah 4:11
And 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."


Treasury of Scripture

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

Nevertheless

Nehemiah 4:11
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

Genesis 32:9-12,28
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: …

2 Kings 19:14-19
And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD…

set a watch

Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Luke 21:36
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

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(9) Because of them.--Rather, over against them: opposite to each point of their encampment. The setting watch was accompanied by solemn and united prayer.

Verse 9. - We... set a watch against them day and night, because of them. Rather, "over against, them,". "opposite to them" - opposite, that m, to the point from which they were expected to make their attack.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So we prayed
וַנִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל (wan·niṯ·pal·lêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 6419: To judge, to intercede, pray

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

our God
אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

and posted
וַנַּעֲמִ֨יד (wan·na·‘ă·mîḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

a guard
מִשְׁמָ֧ר (miš·mār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4929: Place of confinement, jail, prison, guard, watch, observance

against them
עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם (‘ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

day
יוֹמָ֥ם (yō·w·mām)
Adverb
Strong's 3119: Daytime, by day

and night.
וָלַ֖יְלָה (wā·lay·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity


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