8I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head."
8I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head."
5 Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter
6 in which was written: "It is reported among the nations-and Geshem says it is true-that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall. Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king
7 and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: 'There is a king in Judah!' Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us confer together."
8 I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head."
9 They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed." But I prayed, "Now strengthen my hands."
10 One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you-by night they are coming to kill you."
6:8Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
6:8And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.
6:8Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
6:8And I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
6:8Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
6:8Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thy own heart.
6:8Then I sent to him, saying, |There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.|
6:8And I send unto him, saying, 'It hath not been according to these words that thou art saying, for from thine own heart thou art devising them;'
6:8Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.