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Nehemiah 4
[Bible]Nehemiah 4 recounts how the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls met with ridicule from Sanballat and Tobiah and with a plot to attack the city, and how Nehemiah prayed, armed the people, and kept the work going as the builders labored with one hand and held a weapon with the other.
Ezra 1
[Bible]Ezra 1 records how Cyrus king of Persia, in his first year, issued a decree permitting the exiles of Judah to return to Jerusalem and build the temple, and how he returned to Sheshbazzar the temple vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away.
Nehemiah 1
[Bible]Nehemiah 1 is the chapter in which Nehemiah, serving as the king's cupbearer in Shushan the palace in Persia, hears that the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down. He fasts, confesses the people's sins, and prays for restoration.
Nehemiah 12
[Bible]Nehemiah 12 lists the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel and gives the genealogy of the high priests. It then records the dedication of the rebuilt wall of Jerusalem and the arrangements for the storehouses that supplied those who served in the temple.
Ezra 9
[Bible]Ezra 9 is the chapter in which Ezra, on hearing that the people and leaders who had returned to Jerusalem had intermarried with the surrounding foreign peoples, tears his garments in grief and, at the time of the evening sacrifice, offers a prayer confessing the sin of the whole people.
Nehemiah 3
[Bible]Nehemiah 3 is a list recording who was responsible for each gate and section of the wall during the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls. It begins at the Sheep Gate, proceeds around the city, and returns to the Sheep Gate.
Nehemiah 11
[Bible]Nehemiah 11 records how, after the walls were rebuilt, one tenth of the people were chosen by lot to resettle the underpopulated city of Jerusalem, and it lists those who lived in Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah and Benjamin.
Esther 6
[Bible]Esther 6 recounts how King Ahasuerus, unable to sleep, has the court records read to him and learns of Mordecai's service, and how Haman, who had intended to have Mordecai put to death, is instead assigned to honor him in a dramatic reversal.
Job 6
[Bible]Job 6 records Job's reply to the first speech of Eliphaz. Job protests that his suffering is heavier than the sand of the sea and rebukes his friends for offering no comfort, comparing them to streams that run dry.
Job 8
[Bible]Job 8 contains the first speech of Bildad the Shuhite. Bildad asserts that God does not pervert justice and urges Job to seek God, assuring him that if he is pure and upright, he will be restored.
Psalm 11
[Bible]Psalm 11 is a short, seven-verse psalm of trust in which the psalmist, threatened by the wicked, rejects the advice to "flee as a bird to your mountain" and declares that he takes refuge in the LORD, who from His heavenly throne examines humankind.
Psalm 129
[Bible]Psalm 129 is an eight-verse poem in the collection known as the Songs of Ascents. It contains Israel's confession that, though repeatedly afflicted from its youth, it was never overcome, along with a prayer that those who hate Zion may be turned back.
Psalm 149
[Bible]Psalm 149 is a psalm of praise that calls the congregation of the saints to praise God with a new song, with dancing, and with musical instruments, and that celebrates the honor of executing judgment on the nations with a two-edged sword held in the hand.
Proverbs 14
[Bible]Proverbs 14 is a chapter in the collection of the Proverbs of Solomon (10:1–22:16). Its 35 verses are short sayings that contrast the wise with the foolish and the righteous with the wicked.
Isaiah 7
[Bible]Isaiah 7 is the chapter in which Isaiah urges Ahaz, king of Judah, who is afraid of the allied forces of Aram and the northern kingdom of Israel, to have faith, and delivers to him the sign of Immanuel. The chapter then foretells the Assyrian invasion.
Isaiah 57
[Bible]Isaiah 57 is a prophetic chapter that denounces a situation in which no one takes to heart the death of the righteous and indicts idolatry, then conveys God's promise to dwell with the contrite and to heal them.
Jeremiah 4
[Bible]Jeremiah 4 urges Israel to return to God and circumcise their hearts, then depicts an invasion from the north and the desolation of the land of Judah, recording the lament of the prophet who witnesses it.
Isaiah 60
[Bible]Isaiah 60 prophesies that the glory of the LORD will rise upon Zion, which had lain in darkness, that nations and kings will come to its light, and that the LORD will be Zion's everlasting light.
Isaiah 65
[Bible]Isaiah 65 is a prophecy that contrasts judgment on a rebellious people who have forsaken God with the blessings promised to his remaining "servants," and that promises the creation of new heavens and a new earth.
Isaiah 64
[Bible]Isaiah 64 concludes the communal prayer of lament that begins in Isaiah 63:7. It asks God to rend the heavens and come down, confesses the people's sin, and lays before Him the desolation of Zion and the burning of the Temple.