Nehemiah 4:10 Meaning and Explanation
“And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The people of Judah voice their exhaustion: the laborers are failing and the debris too great to finish the wall.
What Does Nehemiah 4:10 Mean?
A new threat rises from within. The men of Judah confess that the carriers' strength is spent, the heaps of rubble seem endless, and the task feels impossible. Weariness, not the enemy, now endangers the work.
Halfway through, discouragement sets in. The very milestone of verse 6 has become the place of fatigue, where the remaining rubbish looks larger than the strength to clear it. Honest words like these are no sin; they bring real weakness into the open where God can meet it. The Lord gives power to the faint and renews the strength of those who wait on Him.
Nehemiah 4:10 in the Original Language
decayed -- the Hebrew kashal (כָּשַׁל) means to stumble or totter, the failing of strength in those who can barely stand.
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What does Nehemiah 4:10 mean?
The people of Judah voice their exhaustion: the laborers are failing and the debris too great to finish the wall.