Nehemiah 5:6
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Nehemiah 5:6 in other translations
| BSB | When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry, |
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| WEB | I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. |
| ASV | And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. |
| YLT | And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words, |
| DARBY | And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. |
| BBE | And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry. |
| Webster | And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. |
What does Nehemiah 5:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 5:6-12
Ne 5:6-19. The Usurers Rebuked.
6-12. I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words--When such disorders came to the knowledge of the governor, his honest indignation was roused against the perpetrators of the evil. Having summoned a public assembly, he denounced their conduct in terms of just severity. He contrasted it with his own in redeeming with his money some of the Jewish exiles who, through debt or otherwise, had lost their personal liberty in Babylon. He urged the rich creditors not only to abandon their illegal and oppressive system of usury, but to restore the fields and vineyards of the poor, so that a remedy might be put to an evil the introduction of which had led to much actual disorder, and the continuance of which would inevitably prove ruinous to the newly restored colony, by violating the fundamental principles of the Hebrew constitution. The remonstrance was effectual. The conscience of the usurious oppressors could not resist the touching and powerful appeal. With mingled emotions of shame, contrition, and fear, they with one voice expressed their readiness to comply with the governor's recommendation. The proceedings were closed by the parties binding themselves by a solemn oath, administered by the priests, that they would redeem their pledge, as well as by the governor invoking, by the solemn and significant gesture of shaking a corner of his garment, a malediction on those who should violate it. The historian has taken care to record that the people did according to this promise.Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 5:6-13
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Nehemiah 5:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nehemiah 5:6
- Nehemiah 13:25
And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
- Exodus 11:8
And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
- Ephesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
- Numbers 16:15
And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
- Nehemiah 13:8
And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
- Mark 3:5
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
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Context
- Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
- Nehemiah 5:6
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
- Nehemiah 5:7
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 5:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y enojéme en gran manera cuando oí su clamor y estas palabras. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et je fus très irrité lorsque j’entendis leur cri et ces paroles. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und als ich ihr Geschrei und diese Worte hörte, wurde ich sehr zornig. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et iratus sum nimis cum audissem clamorem eorum secundum verba hæc: |