English Bible Presentation Sharing - Nehemiah Book, chapter 2, verse All in Ylt Version

Nehemiah 2 : 1 (YLT)

And it cometh to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine *is before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him;

Nehemiah 2 : 2 (YLT)

and the king saith to me, `Wherefore *is thy face sad, and thou not sick? this is nothing except sadness of heart;` and I fear very much,

Nehemiah 2 : 3 (YLT)

and say to the king, `Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, *is a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?`

Nehemiah 2 : 4 (YLT)

And the king saith to me, `For what art thou seeking?` and I pray unto the God of the heavens,

Nehemiah 2 : 5 (YLT)

and say to the king, `If to the king *it be good, and if thy servant be pleasing before thee, that thou send me unto Judah, unto the city of the graves of my fathers, and I built it.`

Nehemiah 2 : 6 (YLT)

And the king saith to me (and the queen is sitting near him), `How long is thy journey? and when dost thou return?` and it is good before the king, and he sendeth me away, and I set to him a time.

Nehemiah 2 : 7 (YLT)

And I say to the king, `If to the king *it be good, letters let be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they let me pass over till that I come in unto Judah:

Nehemiah 2 : 8 (YLT)

and a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king hath, that he give to me trees for beams *for the gates of the palace that the house hath, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I enter;` and the king giveth to me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

Nehemiah 2 : 9 (YLT)

And I come in unto the governors beyond the River, and give to them the letters of the king; and the king sendeth with me heads of a force, and horsemen;

Nehemiah 2 : 10 (YLT)

and Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them -- a great evil -- that a man hath come in to seek good for the sons of Israel.

Nehemiah 2 : 11 (YLT)

And I come in unto Jerusalem, and I am there three days,

Nehemiah 2 : 12 (YLT)

and I rise by night, I and a few men with me, and have not declared to a man what my God is giving unto my heart to do for Jerusalem, and there is no beast with me except the beast on which I am riding.

Nehemiah 2 : 13 (YLT)

And I go out through the gate of the valley by night, and unto the front of the fountain of the dragon, and unto the gate of the dunghill, and I am measuring about the walls of Jerusalem, that are broken down, and its gates consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2 : 14 (YLT)

And I pass over unto the gate of the fountain, and unto the pool of the king, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over,

Nehemiah 2 : 15 (YLT)

and I am going up through the brook by night, and am measuring about the wall, and turn back, and come in through the gate of the valley, and turn back.

Nehemiah 2 : 16 (YLT)

And the prefects have not known whither I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the freemen, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, hitherto I have not declared *it ;

Nehemiah 2 : 17 (YLT)

and I say unto them, `Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem *is waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.`

Nehemiah 2 : 18 (YLT)

And I declare to them the hand of my God that is good upon me, and also the words of the king that he said to me, and they say, `Let us rise, and we have built;` and they strengthen their hands for good.

Nehemiah 2 : 19 (YLT)

And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What *is this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?`

Nehemiah 2 : 20 (YLT)

And I return them word, and say to them, `The God of the heavens -- He doth give prosperity to us, and we His servants rise and have built; and to you there is no portion, and right, and memorial in Jerusalem.`