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Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Esdras 9:9

Porque siervos somos; mas en nuestra servidumbre, nuestro Dios no nos ha abandonado, sino que ha extendido su misericordia sobre nosotros ante los ojos de los reyes de Persia, dándonos ánimo para levantar la casa de nuestro Dios y para restaurar sus ruinas, y dándonos una muralla en Judá y en Jerusalén.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Bondage;   God;   God Continued...;   Intercession;   The Topic Concordance - Forsaking;   God;   Israel/jews;   Mercy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Repentance;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Bondage;   Confession;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezra, the Book of;   Malachi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Fasting;   Genealogy;   Pity;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Synagogue;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Confession;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bondman;   Captivity;   Esdras, the First Book of;   Intercession;   Mercy;   Prayer;   Proselyte;   Repair;   Revive;   Ruin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dimi;   Prayer;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 23;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Porque siervos éramos: mas en nuestra servidumbre no nos desamparó nuestro Dios, antes inclinó sobre nosotros misericordia delante de los reyes de Persia, para que se nos diese vida para alzar la casa de nuestro Dios, y para hacer restaurar sus asolamient
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Porque siervos éramos; mas en nuestra servidumbre no nos desamparó nuestro Dios, antes extendió sobre nosotros su misericordia delante de los reyes de Persia, para que se nos diese vida para levantar la casa de nuestro Dios, y para restaurar sus ruinas, y para darnos muros en Judá y en Jerusalén.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Porque siervos éramos; mas en nuestra servidumbre no nos desamparó nuestro Dios, antes inclinó sobre nosotros misericordia delante del rey de Persia, para que se nos diese vida para alzar la Casa de nuestro Dios, y para hacer restaurar sus asolamientos, y para darnos vallado en Judá y en Jerusalén.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we were bondmen: Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37

yet our God: Psalms 106:45, Psalms 106:46, Psalms 136:23, Psalms 136:24, Ezekiel 11:16

in the sight: Ezra 1:1-4, Ezra 1:7-11, Ezra 6:1-12, Ezra 7:6, Ezra 7:8, 11-28

to set up: Ezra 6:14, Ezra 6:15, Haggai 1:9, Zechariah 4:6-10

repair: Heb. set up

a wall: Or rather, a hedge or fence, gader, such as were made for sheep-folds. Isaiah 5:2, Isaiah 5:5, Daniel 9:25, Zechariah 2:5

Reciprocal: Ezra 7:28 - extended Ezra 9:8 - grace hath Nehemiah 1:2 - that had escaped Esther 4:14 - enlargement Psalms 85:6 - revive Isaiah 14:3 - General Isaiah 49:24 - lawful captive Jeremiah 51:5 - Israel Lamentations 3:22 - of Micah 7:19 - turn John 8:33 - and were Revelation 21:12 - a wall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we were bondmen,.... To the Chaldeans when in Babylon, which was more than the Jews in the times of Christ would own, John 8:33,

yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage; had not left them to continue in it always:

but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia; moved them to have pity and compassion on them, and release them:

to give us a reviving; while in captivity, they were as in their graves, and like the dry bones in Ezekiel's vision, but revived upon the proclamation of Cyrus, and the encouragement he gave them to return to their own land:

to set up the house of our God, and repair the desolations thereof; both to rebuild the temple, and to restore the worship of it:

and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem; not to set up the walls of Jerusalem, and of other cities, which as yet was not done; but rather the walls of their houses, which they had rebuilt; they had walled houses given them in Judah and Jerusalem; though the word signifies an hedge or fence, such as is about gardens and vineyards, and may denote the protection of the kings of Persia, which was a fence to them against the Samaritans and others; and especially the hedge of divine Providence about them, which guarded and defended them, see Job 1:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We were bondmen - Rather, “we are bondmen†(compare the marginal reference). The Israelites, though returned from the captivity, were still “bondmen.†The Persian monarch was their absolute lord and master.


 
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