10Judah said, |The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.|


In Context

7 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;

8 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

10 Judah said, |The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.|

11 Our adversaries said, |They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.|

12 It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, |Wherever you turn, they will attack us.|

Nehemiah 4:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and [there is] much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:10Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:10And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the wall.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens faileth, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build at the wall.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10And Judah saith, 'The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish is abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.