2067 verses about Work

Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)

I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

“Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”

So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.

When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”

The gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.

The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.

Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.

and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of God’s house;

Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.

But the temple servants lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.

The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of God’s house.

Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.

Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were close to them according to their offices.

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.

They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.

Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.

Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”

Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.

All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

“Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.