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?


In Context

14 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don't wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

15 In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys therewith; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

16 There lived men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

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

18 Didn't your fathers do thus, and didn't our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.|

19 It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden should 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:17I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing-desecrating 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 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?