Quotes from Nehemiah

9 notable lines from Ezra · c. 400 BCE

Neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Nehemiah 8:10 (KJV)

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

  1. I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

    Nehemiah's reply to Sanballat, Nehemiah 6:3 (KJV)

  2. So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

    Nehemiah 4:6 (KJV)

  3. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

    The people answer Nehemiah, Nehemiah 2:18 (KJV)

  4. This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep.

    Nehemiah and Ezra to the weeping people, Nehemiah 8:9 (KJV)

  5. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

    Nehemiah 8:8 (KJV)

  6. Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

    Nehemiah 4:9 (KJV)

  7. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

    Report that moved Nehemiah to act, Nehemiah 1:3 (KJV)

  8. Remember me, O my God, for good.

    Nehemiah's closing prayer, Nehemiah 13:31 (KJV)