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OET (OET-RV) and they all got together to come to attack Yerushalem and to throw us into confusion.
OET-LV [fn] and_looked and_stood_up and_said to the_nobles and_near/to the_officials and_near/to the_rest_of the_people do_not be_afraid from_their_face/front DOM my_master the_great and_the_awesome remember and_fight on brothers_of_your_all’s sons_of_your_all’s and_daughters_of_your_all’s wives_of_your_all’s and_homes_of_your_all’s.
4:8 Note: KJB: Neh.4.14
UHB 2 וַיִּקְשְׁר֤וּ כֻלָּם֙ יַחְדָּ֔ו לָב֖וֹא לְהִלָּחֵ֣ם בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת ל֖וֹ תּוֹעָֽה׃ ‡
(2 vayyiqshərū kullām yaḩdāv lāⱱōʼ ləhillāḩēm biyrūshālāim vəlaˊₐsōt lō tōˊāh.)
Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXX No BrLXX NEH book available
BrTr And all of them assembled together, to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to destroy it utterly.
ULT And all of them together conspired to come to fight against Jerusalem and to make confusion for it.
UST All of them together made a plan to come and fight against the people of Jerusalem. They wanted to make the people inside the city confused and divided.
BSB and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.
MSB (Same as above)
OEB And they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to produce a panic therein.
WEBBE and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion amongst us.
WMBB (Same as above)
MSG (7-9)When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairs of the walls of Jerusalem were going so well—that the breaks in the wall were being fixed—they were absolutely furious. They put their heads together and decided to fight against Jerusalem and create as much trouble as they could. We countered with prayer to our God and set a round-the-clock guard against them.
NET All of them conspired together to move with armed forces against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it.
LSV and they conspire, all of them together, to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
FBV They all plotted together to come and attack Jerusalem and to throw everything into confusion.
T4T They all planned to come and fight against the people of Jerusalem [MTY] and to cause trouble.
LEB No LEB NEH book available
BBE And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.
Moff No Moff NEH book available
JPS (4-2) and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
ASV and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
DRA And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.
YLT and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
Drby and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
RV and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
(and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Yerusalem, and to cause confusion therein. )
SLT And they will conspire all of them together to come to war against Jerusalem, and to do damage to it.
Wbstr And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
KJB-1769 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.[fn]
(And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Yerusalem, and to hinder it. )
4.8 to hinder…: Heb. to make an error to it
KJB-1611 [fn]And conspired all of them together, to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder it.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)
4:8 Hebr. to make an errour to it.
Bshps No Bshps NEH book available
Gnva And conspired all together to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder them.
(And conspired all together to come and to fight against Yerusalem, and to hinder them. )
Cvdl No Cvdl NEH book available
Wycl No Wycl NEH book available
Luth No Luth NEH book available
ClVg Et congregati sunt omnes pariter ut venirent, et pugnarent contra Jerusalem, et molirentur insidias.
(And congregati are everyone as_well as I_camerent, and fightrent on_the_contrary Yerusalem, and molirentur insidias. )
RP-GNT No RP-GNT NEH book available
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
לְהִלָּחֵ֣ם בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and,looked and,stood_up and,said to/towards the,nobles and=near/to the,officials and=near/to rest_of the,people not afraid from=their=face/front DOM my=master the,great and,the,awesome remember and,fight on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in brothers_of,your_all's sons_of,your_all's and,daughters_of,your_all's wives_of,your_all's and,homes_of,your_all's )
Here, Jerusalem refers to the people who live there. These enemies were not coming to fight against the walls and buildings. Nehemiah is describing the people of Jerusalem by reference to something associated with them, the city where they live. Alternate translation: [to fight against the people of Jerusalem]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת ל֖וֹ תּוֹעָֽה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,looked and,stood_up and,said to/towards the,nobles and=near/to the,officials and=near/to rest_of the,people not afraid from=their=face/front DOM my=master the,great and,the,awesome remember and,fight on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in brothers_of,your_all's sons_of,your_all's and,daughters_of,your_all's wives_of,your_all's and,homes_of,your_all's )
The abstract noun confusion refers to the way these enemies hoped that their attack would make the people of Jerusalem not know what to do. The people might disagree among themselves about whether they should keep working on the wall or whether they should discontinue the work to appease the attackers. They might also disagree about how to defend themselves. you could translate the idea behind the term “confusion” with adjectives such as “confused” and “divided.” Alternate translation: [They wanted to make the people inside the city confused and divided.]