Nehemiah 4:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Hear. turn. Figure of speech Apostrophe. Nehemiah's prayer an echo of Psalms 120, 121, 123:Psalms 120:3-4,124, 125, 127, and 129. In accord with that dispensation.

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

despised. become. taunt.

captivity. Some codices, with six early printed editions and Syriac, read "their captivity".

Nehemiah 4:4

4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised:b and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: