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Nehemiah 4:10

King James Version (KJV)

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Nehemiah 4:10

Verse 10 of 23

Scripture focus

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and [there is] much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

Nehemiah 4:10 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Nehemiah 4:10

Theological / Devotional

Judah said. The vigilant guard duty and continuous labor pressed heavily upon the people and discouraged them. Their complaint is expressed in poetic form and may have been a song composed and sung by the burden bearers. In Hebrew it consists of ten words, two sentences of two lines each. The first line of each sentence is composed of three words and the second line of two. The last words of the first and third lines rhyme, and originally the second and fourth may have also. The following translation represents an attempt to render the original thought in poetical form:

Too weak is the carriers’ strength

and too much the debris;

And we are not able

to rebuild the wall.

By SdaBc