Nehemiah 6:3

3And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

Nehemiah 6:9

9For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God,
Hebrew lacks  O God
strengthen my hands.

Job 20:5

5 bthat the exulting of the wicked is short,
and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

1 Thessalonians 2:18

18because we wanted to come to youI, Paul, again and againbut Satan chindered us.
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