17I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing-desecrating the Sabbath day?


In Context

14 Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.

15 In those days I saw men in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.

16 Men from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah.

17 I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing-desecrating the Sabbath day?

18 Didn't your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity upon us and upon this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath."

19 When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing [is] this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the sabbath day?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:17And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:17And I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this which ye do, profaning the sabbath day?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, |What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:17And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, 'What is this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day?