Nehemiah 4:4
ContextNET © | Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile! |
NIV © | Hear us, O our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. |
NASB © | Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity. |
NLT © | Then I prayed, "Hear us, O our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land! |
MSG © | Nehemiah prayed, "Oh listen to us, dear God. We're so despised: Boomerang their ridicule on their heads; have their enemies cart them off as war trophies to a land of no return; |
BBE © | Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners: |
NRSV © | Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their taunt back on their own heads, and give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. |
NKJV © | Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plunder to a land of captivity! |
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NET © | Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile! |
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