Nehemiah 5:6
New International Version
When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry.

New Living Translation
When I heard their complaints, I was very angry.

English Standard Version
I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.

Berean Standard Bible
When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,

King James Bible
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

New King James Version
And I became very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.

New American Standard Bible
Then I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.

NASB 1995
Then I was very angry when I had heard their outcry and these words.

NASB 1977
Then I was very angry when I had heard their outcry and these words.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then I was very angry when I had heard their outcry and these words.

Amplified Bible
Then I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words [of accusation].

Christian Standard Bible
I became extremely angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I became extremely angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints.

American Standard Version
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I was very grieved myself when I heard their wailing and these words.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I was much grieved as I heard their cry and these words.

Contemporary English Version
When I heard their complaints and their charges, I became very angry.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to these words.

English Revised Version
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I became furious when I heard their complaint and what they had to say.

Good News Translation
When I heard their complaints, I grew angry

International Standard Version
I became very livid when I heard their complaining and these charges.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Literal Standard Version
And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words,

Majority Standard Bible
When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,

New American Bible
I was extremely angry when I heard the reasons for their complaint.

NET Bible
I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints.

New Revised Standard Version
I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints.

New Heart English Bible
I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

World English Bible
I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Young's Literal Translation
And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Nehemiah Defends the Oppressed
5We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.” 6When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry, 7and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them…

Cross References
Exodus 11:8
And all these officials of yours will come and bow before me, saying, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you!' After that, I will depart." And hot with anger, Moses left Pharaoh's presence.

Nehemiah 5:7
and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, "You are exacting usury from your own brothers!" So I called a large assembly against them


Treasury of Scripture

And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Nehemiah 13:8,25
And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber…

Exodus 11:8
And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.

Numbers 16:15
And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

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Nehemiah 5
1. The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage
6. Nehemiah rebukes the usurers, and causes them to make a covenant of restitution
14. He forbears his own allowance, and keeps hospitality














(6) And I was very angry.--Nehemiah, recently arrived, had not known this state of things. The common wailing and the three complaints in which it found expression are distinct.

Verse 6. - I was very angry. It is not clear that the letter of the law was infringed, unless it were in the matter of taking interest (ver. 11), of which the people had not complained. That men might sell their daughters to be concubines or secondary wives is clear from Exodus 21:7; and it is therefore probable that they might sell their sons for servants. But the servitude might only be for six years (Exodus 21:2); and if a jubilee year occurred before the sexennial period was out, the service was ended (Leviticus 25:10). Land too might be either mortgaged or sold (ibid. vers. 14-16), but under the condition that it returned to the seller, or at any rate to his tribe, in the jubilee year (ibid. vers. 10, 13). The spirit, however, of the law - the command, "Ye shall not oppress one another" (ibid. vers. 14, 17) - was transgressed by the proceedings of the rich men. It was their duty in a time of scarcity not to press hard upon their poorer brethren, but freely to alleviate their necessities. Nehemiah, his near relations, and his followers had done so to the utmost of their power (ver. 10, with the comment). The rich men had acted differently, and made all the profit that they could out of the need of their fellow-countrymen. Hence Nehemiah's anger.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When
כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I heard
שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ (šā·ma‘·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

their outcry
זַֽעֲקָתָ֔ם (za·‘ă·qā·ṯām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2201: A shriek, outcry

and these
הָאֵֽלֶּה׃ (hā·’êl·leh)
Article | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

complaints,
הַדְּבָרִ֥ים (had·də·ḇā·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

I became extremely
מְאֹ֑ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

angry,
וַיִּ֥חַר (way·yi·ḥar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2734: To glow, grow warm, to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy


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