Bible Verses About The Jews

as they continued building the wall. Those who carried loads held their loads with one hand and carried a weapon in the other.

As for the construction-workers, each one had his sword sheathed at his side; that is how they built. The man to sound the alarm on the shofar stayed with me.

I said to the nobles, the leaders and the rest of the people, "This is a great work, and it is spread out; we are separated on the wall, one far from another.

But wherever you are, when you hear the sound of the shofar, come to that place, to us. Our God will fight for us!"

So we kept doing the work. Half of them held spears from daybreak until the stars appeared.

Also at that time I told the people, "Let everyone with a servant stay the night within Yerushalayim, so that at night they can be a guard for us, even as they work during the day."

They provoked him with their high places and made him jealous with their idols.

God heard, and he was angry; he came to detest Isra'el completely.

He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent he had made where he could live among people.

He gave his strength into exile, his pride to the power of the foe.

He gave his people over to the sword and grew angry with his own heritage.

Fire consumed their young men, their virgins had no wedding-song,

their cohanim fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

A psalm of Asaf: God, the pagans have entered your heritage. They have defiled your holy temple and turned Yerushalayim into rubble.

They have given the corpses of your servants as food for the birds in the air, yes, the flesh of those faithful to you for the wild animals of the earth.

All around Yerushalayim they have shed their blood like water, and no one is left to bury them.

We suffer the taunts of our neighbors, we are mocked and scorned by those around us.

How long, ADONAI? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, on the kingdoms that don't call out your name;

for they have devoured Ya'akov and left his home a waste.

wandering from nation to nation, from this kingdom to that people,

he allowed no one to oppress them. Yes, for their sakes he rebuked even kings:

"Don't touch my anointed ones or do my prophets harm!"

He will not let your foot slip -your guardian is not asleep.

No, the guardian of Isra'el never slumbers or sleeps.