Nehemiah 4:9 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

English ASV

But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

English Amplified

But because of them we made our prayer to our God and set a watch against them day and night.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

But because of them we made our prayer to our God and set a watch against them day and night.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Then we prayed to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

English EASY 2024

So we continued to pray to our God. We also put guards on the walls in the day and the night, to keep the city safe.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

But we prayed to our God. And we put guards on the walls to watch day and night so that we could be ready to meet them.

And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

but we prayed to our God and kept men on guard against them day and night.

English God's Word - GW 1995

But we prayed to our God and set guards to protect us day and night.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.

English KJV 1611

Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

English LSB

But we prayed to our God, and because of them we stood a guard against them day and night.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Nevertheless we prayed to our God, and, because of them, we set up a watch for them day and night.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

When our enemies became aware that we had been warned and that God had upset their plan, we all went back, each to his own task at the wall.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard to protect against them both day and night.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

But we prayed to our God. We put guards on duty day and night to watch out for danger.

English NIV

But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.

English NKJ 1982

Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.

English NLT

But we prayed to our God and guarded the city day and night to protect ourselves.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

So we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

And we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

But we prayed to our God and guarded the city day and night to protect ourselves.

English Tyndale 1537

Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night over against them.

Nehemiah 4:9 — Compare Translations