Bible Verses About The Jews

Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword.

For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.

And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated on the wall one far from another:

In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us: our God will fight for us.

And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.

At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the night, and by day, to work.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel.

And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.

Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.