THE HAND OF MY GOD

NEHEMIAH 2:17-20

THEN SAID I UNTO THEM, 

YE SEE THE DISTRESS 

THAT WE ARE IN, 

HOW JERUSALEM LIETH WASTE, 

AND 

THE GATES THEREOF 

ARE BURNED WITH FIRE: 

COME, AND LET US BUILD UP 

THE WALL OF JERUSALEM, 

THAT WE BE NO 

MORE A REPROACH. 

THEN 

I TOLD THEM OF 

THE HAND OF MY GOD 

WHICH WAS GOOD UPON ME; 

AS ALSO THE KING'S WORDS 

THAT HE HAD SPOKEN 

UNTO ME. 

AND THEY SAID, 

LET US RISE UP AND BUILD. 

SO THEY STRENGTHENED 

THEIR HANDS FOR 

THIS GOOD WORK. 

BUT 

WHEN SANBALLAT AND HORONITE,

 AND 

TOBIAH THE SERVANT, 

THE AMMONITE, 

AND 

GESHEM THE ARABIAN, 

HEARD IT, 

THEY LAUGHED US TO SCORN, 

AND DESPISED US, 

AND SAID, 

WHAT IS THIS THING 

THAT YE DO? 

WILL YE REBEL 

AGAINST THE KING? 

THEN ANSWERED I THEM, 

AND 

SAID UNTO THEM, 

THE GOD OF HEAVEN, 

HE WILL PROSPER US; 

THEREFORE WE 

HIS SERVANTS 

WILL ARISE AND BUILD: 

BUT 

YE HAVE NO PORTION, 

NOR RIGHT, 

NOR MEMORIAL, 

IN JERUSALEM.

LOVE