Berean Standard Bible
“So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?”
While the wall of Jerusalem is being rebuilt, a famine and heavy taxes have driven many Jews to mortgage their fields and even sell their children into servitude to fellow Jews. Nehemiah is angry when he hears their cry and calls a great assembly.
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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
World English Bible (WEB)
Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
King James Version (KJV)
Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
American Standard Version (ASV)
Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
Bible in Basic English (BBE)
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
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Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)
Y dije: No es bien lo que hacéis, ¿no andaréis en temor de nuestro Dios, por no ser el oprobio de las gentes enemigas nuestras?
Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)
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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)
Entonces insistí: ―Lo que ustedes están haciendo es muy malo. ¿Por qué no actúan ustedes de acuerdo a la instrucción de nuestro Dios? ¿No tenemos enemigos suficientes entre las naciones que nos rodean y que están tratando de destruirnos?
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