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• Judges 5:1

  Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

• Judges 5:2

  “Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

• Judges 5:3

  “Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• Judges 5:4

  “Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

• Judges 5:5

  The mountains quaked Yahweh’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• Judges 5:6

  “In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.

• Judges 5:7

  The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.

• Judges 5:8

  They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

• Judges 5:9

  My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!

• Judges 5:10

  “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.

• Judges 5:11

  Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.

• Judges 5:12

  ‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’

• Judges 5:13

  “Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.

• Judges 5:14

  Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.

• Judges 5:15

  The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.

• Judges 5:16

  Why did you sit among the sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.

• Judges 5:17

  Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.

• Judges 5:18

  Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.

• Judges 5:19

  “The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.

• Judges 5:20

  From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.

• Judges 5:21

  The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.

• Judges 5:22

  Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.

• Judges 5:23

  ‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.’

• Judges 5:24

  “Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

• Judges 5:25

  He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

• Judges 5:26

  She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.

• Judges 5:27

  At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

• Judges 5:28

  “Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’

• Judges 5:29

  Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

• Judges 5:30

  ‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’

• Judges 5:31

  “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

• 2 Samuel 10:12

  Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

• Nehemiah 1:1

  The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

• Nehemiah 1:2

  Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 1:3

  They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

• Nehemiah 1:4

  When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

• Nehemiah 1:5

  and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

• Nehemiah 1:6

  Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

• Nehemiah 1:7

  We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.

• Nehemiah 1:8

  “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;

• Nehemiah 1:9

  but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

• Nehemiah 1:10

  “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.

• Nehemiah 1:11

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

• Nehemiah 2:1

  In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

• Nehemiah 2:2

  The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

• Nehemiah 2:3

  I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

• Nehemiah 2:4

  Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

• Nehemiah 2:5

  I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”

• Nehemiah 2:6

  The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for he.

• Nehemiah 2:7

  Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;

• Nehemiah 2:8

  and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

• Nehemiah 2:9

  Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

• Nehemiah 2:10

  When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

• Nehemiah 2:11

  So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

• Nehemiah 2:12

  I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

• Nehemiah 2:13

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

• Nehemiah 2:14

  Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

• Nehemiah 2:15

  Then went I up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

• Nehemiah 2:16

  The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

• Nehemiah 2:17

  Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”

• Nehemiah 2:18

  I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammontite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

• Nehemiah 2:20

  Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

• Nehemiah 5:1

  Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

• Nehemiah 5:2

  For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Nehemiah 5:6

  I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  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.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  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 they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Nehemiah 5:12

  Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

• Nehemiah 5:13

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

• Nehemiah 5:14

  Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

• Nehemiah 5:15

  But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

• Nehemiah 5:16

  Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

• Nehemiah 5:17

  Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.

• Nehemiah 5:18

  Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

• Psalms 137:1

  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

• Psalms 137:2

  On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.

• Psalms 137:3

  For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

• Psalms 137:4

  How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

• Psalms 137:5

  If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

• Psalms 137:6

  Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you; if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.