Help QuickNav Adv. Options
YLT

YLT

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Nehemiah 2 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:1 - 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;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - 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,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - 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?'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:4 - And the king saith to me, 'For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - 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.'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:6 - 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7 - 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:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9 - 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;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:10 - 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 Inspects Jerusalem's Walls

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:11 - And I come in unto Jerusalem, and I am there three days,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - 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,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:16 - 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;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - 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.'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:18 - 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:19 - 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?'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:20 - 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.'
YLT

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Pericope

Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
YLT
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
YLT
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Nehemiah Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras